What Really Happened to Jesse Owens? The Real Story Behind Stephen Hopkin’s New Film Race, Starring Stephan James

In 1936, an unknown son of a black sharecropper sprinted his way from obscurity into legend. Race, starring Selma’s Stephan James and SNL’s Jason Sudeikas, is based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the African-American track and field star who won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics despite Hitler’s efforts to …

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