The 100-foot-long installation, made with fiberglass, steel and wire, features 200 casts of Smith’s raised arm and fist, painted gold ... Artist Glenn Kaino and Olympic gold medalist Tommie ...

They could have returned home as popular U.S. Olympic medalists in 1968 before ... One of the two men who raised his black-gloved fist 46 summers ago in Mexico City returned a phone call the ...

The photo of the raised-fist salute was front page on newspapers around the globe within hours. The consequences were immediate. "Smith and Carlos were told to leave the Olympic Village and Mexico ...

Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the Olympic medal stand in Mexico City in 1968 — a moment frozen by a snapshot. A raised-fist salute, flattened in a photograph, has been given additional depth ...

It has been nearly 50 years since John Carlos won a bronze medal in the 200-meter race at the 1968 Summer Olympics and, in what would become a resounding political statement, raised a fist on the ...

“That raised fist means black power ... he is being advised on the 49ers by Dr. Harry Edwards, who organized the Olympic Project for Human Rights while a professor at San Jose State, when ...

The Olympics provide a stage for the entire ... Both men bowed their heads and proudly raised a fist encased in a black glove into the air, the black power salute. These men were good enough ...

The raised fist has been a staple of protests across ... In 1968, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made the salute famous from an Olympic podium in Mexico City. But the gesture is even ...

Gwen Berry raised a fist twice before the hammer thrower started her competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday night. Berry recorded a 71.35 in the hammer throw but finished far from the podium.

That’s a punishable offense. On the podium at the 2019 Pan Am Games, Berry raised her fist. Then she paid for it. She was reprimanded by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and is now ...

Olympic fencer Race Imboden and hammer-thrower Gwen Berry were put on a 12-month probation on Wednesday for protesting on the medal stand this month at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

The 200-meter dash at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics lasted 19.8 seconds ... features 200 casts of Smith’s raised arm and fist, painted gold and suspended from the ceiling.