Over five decades after two SJSU students Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a protest felt across the world, ...

The historic 1968 men's 200m race featuring Tommie Smith and John Carlos turns out to be track legend Michael Johnson's ...

African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in the Black Power Salute during the 200-meter medal ceremony at the Olympics on this day in 1968. What was the Black Power ...

When Olympians John Carlos and Tommie Smith put their fists up in the air while on the podium at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, as a Black boy growing up in Dayton, Ohio, what did that moment mean ...

Anyone aware of acts of protest, feats of conscience, and other deeds of courage will recall the raising of clenched fists at the 1968 Olympic Games.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Echo Summit, the site of the 1968 U.S. Olympic men’s track and field trials, was recognized in 2014 as a California Historical Landmark. Now, just 10 years later ...

Mexico’s then-authoritarian leaders were keen to present an image of order and stability before the 1968 Summer Olympics, the first held in Latin America. Sheinbaum, a leftist activist ...