WASHINGTON -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos were proud to raise their gloved fists in a symbolic protest at the Olympics, and now they're proud that Colin Kaepernick and other athletes are staging ...
In the 1968 Summer Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos had just won the gold and bronze medals, respectively, for their record-breaking runs in the 200-meter race when they raised their ...
American track and field athletes Tommie Smith (C) and John Carlos (R), first and third place winners in the 200 meter race, protest with the Black Power salute as they stand on the winner’s podium at ...
Former American Olympic track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who made world headlines after their iconic fist-raising protest on the podium after winning in the 1968 Olympics, will be at UConn ...
On this, the forty-fifth anniversary of the fists of freedom at the 1968 Olympics, we need a new Olympic Project for Human Rights. Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, US athletes Tommie ...
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A figure skating clinic with Brian Boitano, a volleyball session with Misty May-Treanor and a soccer clinic with Michelle Akers are all on the agenda. Olympic and civil rights movement icons Tommie ...
The spirit of protest didn’t end for John Carlos with a clinched, raised fist on a podium in Mexico City. More than 56 years after that moment Carlos shared a forum in Colorado Springs with Smith on ...
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the U.S. Olympic sprinters who raised their fists during the 1968 Olympics, will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House next week for its meeting with President ...