The two sprinters took to the winner's podium shoeless, wearing black socks (to represent the poverty of Afro-Americans), black scarves (to symbolize the horror of lynchings) and black gloves (as a ...

American athletes have spoken out this week on ICE’s actions in Minnesota, joining a long tradition of Team USA using their ...

The director of "Fists of Freedom," a documentary about Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, says the reaction to Olympians speaking out has some similarities and differences to 1968.

That statement, of course, is so much trash because the Olympics have long been used to make political statements – some good, some benign and some leading to revolutionary change.