Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in "42" The new movie 42, mainly about baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his rookie year playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, is, in equal parts, a paean ...

“God built me to last,” Jackie Robinson says at one point in “42,” and, ... he maneuvers a Southern gas station owner into allowing the black ballplayers to use a whites-only restroom.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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 ...

There is a wonderful scene in “42” that shows a small group of boys at a Florida train station trying to catch a glimpse of Jackie Robinson, maybe get his autograph. The boys, African-American ...