During the medal ceremony for the 200-meter sprint at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists, a symbol for black power.

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games beginning with Olympiad II in Paris in 1900.

was captured 50 years ago when U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the world stage during the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. It was Oct. 16, 1968. Smith had just won gold and ...

of a Detroit 1968 Olympics and whether it could have changed ... four years before Detroit’s devastating summer of 1967, telling the world with oozing confidence: “Detroit’s the city of ...

Because the track is located in a public park that doubled as the official sporting complex of the 1968 Summer Olympics, it ...

Edwards originally spurred the Olympic athletes in OPHR to boycott the 1968 Summer Olympics to underscore the poverty, poor education and discrimination Black folks in the United States faced then.

George Foreman was a notoriously big puncher but has admitted there was one 'tough' heavyweight he avoided in his decorated ...

The Harvard heavyweight crew enters a new league this summer, -- international and club ... Newell Boathouse have their eyes on next year's Olympics at Mexico City. There is no definite racing ...

After helping to organize a potential boycott of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City to protest racial discrimination in sports, Smith and Carlos went to the Olympics when the boycott was ...

The Rumble In The Jungle’ pitting heavyweight champion George Foreman against Muhammad Ali on October 30 1974 - 50 years ago ...

The first Special Olympics Games debuted in the summer of 1968, and now 50 years later, we encourage you to #ChooseToInclude people with intellectual disabilities. When Karen Ryan's daughter was ...

Some individuals say, “Athletics and politics don’t mix.” While there is some truth to that, many sports fans use sports as a ...