Inspired by U.S. sprinter Tommie Smith, who with John Carlos raised his fist in protest during the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, the artwork commemorates the silent gesture during a time of ...

Edwards originally spurred the Olympic athletes in OPHR to boycott the 1968 Summer Olympics to underscore ... sent back home after staging their protest, summarily booted out of the Olympics ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- The black power freedom salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics was a protest felt across the world and it remains a symbol against racism and for equality. The two men ...

The International Olympic Committee dismissed the incident as an "internal affair" and continued on its preparations for the Games. If the IOC were happy to turn a blind eye to the protest on the ...

Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made history when they raised their fist in a silent Black Power salute protest against ongoing racial inequity in the US at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games.

circles superimposed. Such decor is common in Olympic Village and elsewhere in Mexico City, site of the 1968 Olympic Games. Mexico City sits at 7,500 feet above sea level. This altitude would ...

In 1968, Peter Norman won Olympic silver, but his lasting legacy was a stance for justice on the podium alongside Tommie ...

(William Yates/Chicago Tribune/Zuma Press) Lee Weiner, the last surviving member of the Chicago 7, has some advice for anyone planning to protest during ... disorder of the 1968 Democratic ...

Dunai competed in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games, while Nielsen played in the 1908 ... With several nations withdrawing from the Moscow Games to protest the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan, the ...

The Block Museum’s latest exhibition, “Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968-72,” captures the spirit and solidarity of American protest through photographs by Brooklyn ...