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 the celebrated movie director John Schlesinger came to formulate the opening sequence for Marathon Man, he chose to use ...

Glenn Kaino’s “Bridge” installation animates the protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos while honoring the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

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.

By 1972, his record unbeaten, instead of preparing for the Munich Olympics, Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, ended up training schoolchildren in Wakefield in northern England to earn a ...

After finishing first and third in the 200 meters during the Summer Olympic games on Oct. 16, 1968, Smith and Carlos raised their fists.

Ethel Kennedy, who died this week, tried to control the sprawling political clan after the death of her husband Robert ...

Other pictures show Neil during a training session and alongside Maureen Tranter, Anita Neil, Lillian Board and Janet Simpson, after competing in the 1968 Olympic 4x100m relay. There is also an ...

More than 1,000 athletes from around Arizona compete this weekend in Special Olympics events being held at Mesa's Skyline ...