In 1950, the year The Jackie Robinson Story came out, we are in the middle of a transition from how Black people were portrayed in the past, and the (sometimes) more realistic way they would be ...

Robinson struggles to maintain dignity trying to break organized baseball’s color barrier. Starring the baseball legend himself, the film shows his struggles to maintain his dignity while enduring the ...

At first glance, it smacks of a mismatch, like the Dodgers battling a rookie league team: A modern, major Hollywood film featuring one of the all-time biggest box office draws vs. a 63-year-old ...

LOS ANGELES - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern major-league baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.