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Most baseball films are pure entertainment. But baseball is often the setting for notable films that tell a bigger story about America’s social conditions. As the Major League Baseball season begins, here are 13 examples.

Bernstein used his status as a public figure both to popularize classical music and to support civil rights, the antiwar movement, and other political causes.

How the Nationals’ star reliever became the conscience of baseball.

On July 27, the hotel workers union in LA, UNITE HERE Local 11, in a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times, asked Swift to cancel her six sold-out concerts at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, in solidarity with the 15,000 hotel workers who have been on s

The SAG-AFTRA strike comes at a time when polls suggest unions are more popular in the U.S. than at any time since 1965, and the labor movement is experiencing a resurgence of organizing. These 5 films reveal some of the history of this organizing.

Poet Langston Hughes was invited to speak at Occidental College on this day in 1948, then uninvited when red-baiters released a report calling him a “subversive.” His story shows how the postwar Red Scare targeted radicals, particularly black leftists.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

Here are five unsung labor movies, all based on real-life events, that deserve more attention.

For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.

Robinson was a fierce competitor, an outstanding athlete and a deeply religious man. The aspect of his legacy that often gets glossed over is that he was also a radical with a long involvement with the civil rights movement.