I can understand why many progressives love the new Jackie Robinson movie—but I can’t agree. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment. This week in Major League Baseball was Jackie Robinson Day.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball has scored a rare hit in Hollywood, while another American institution — Tom Cruise — has delivered his latest hit overseas. The Jackie Robinson tale "42" took in $27.3 ...

… However, here in advance are five aspects of Jackie Robinson’s tumultuous, politically complicated life story I fear won’t make the film’s final cut. 1. Branch Rickey was no saint. Based upon ...

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.

If Roger Ebert were still with us, the hunch here is that he'd give "42" a thumbs up, and it would be next-to-impossible, and pointless, to disagree. Starring Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, who ...

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' ...