Tommie Smith, who won the Gold Medal and broke the world record in the 200-meter race in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and promptly got banished by the USOC and rendered a pariah for raising a ...

(Reuters) - Tommie Smith was once among the fastest men on the planet but it is the raised-fist protest he took part in at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, a gesture that became a symbol of the civil ...

Smith is a former Olympic sprinter. In 1968, he won the 200-meter dash and became a civil rights icon for striking the black power salute on the podium. On Saturday, he is scheduled to be in D.C.

A new sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum pays tribute to one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history. Inspired by U.S. sprinter Tommie Smith, who with John Carlos raised his fist ...

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HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global sports company PUMA celebrates 55 years since the iconic Silent Gesture made by Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics on October 16 th. In honor of this ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Tommie Smith is selling the gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where his Black Power salute on the podium shocked the sports world. The former San Jose State ...

This year’s standouts included shows about a gay paradise in Massachusetts, a mass kidnapping in Mexico and a commune in West Virginia. By Reggie Ugwu It’s who Jackie Robinson and Tommie Smith were ...