Sputnik Monroe, a wrestler in Tennessee during the Jim Crow era, advanced civil rights Real heroes dominate history’s main pages. Most of us live our lives in the margins. The full fabric of the ...

Wrestler Rock "Sputnik" Monroe was at the pinnacle of Memphis wrestling 40 years ago when his swagger and larger-than-life personality sold out local arenas. He's remembered more today as a social ...

People of a certain age who grew up in Memphis know all too well about Sputnik Monroe, the professional wrestler who used the power of celebrity and popular culture to move the racial equality ...

Sputnik Monroe, whose wrestling career in Memphis stretched from the late '50s to the early '80s, was so popular among Memphis boys that many of them used peroxide to dye white streaks in their ...

Let's ring that bell and see how much you know about Memphis wrestling from Sputnik Monroe to Jerry Lawler to The Rock.

William Lyons is Interim Associate Director of The Institute of American Civics at the Howard Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee. People of a certain age ...

Sputnik is changing hands for the first time in the South Broadway bar's 21-year-history as the owner of Fellow Traveler, a longtime employee, takes over from Matt LaBarge ...

This canine was not happy with her seating assignment. Sputnik, a Shiba Inu, had more than enough legroom during her Alaskan Airlines flight last week as she chewed her way through the metal gate ...

The Space Age officially began when the USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. But how did this satellite work, and what did it actually do?

When Sputnik Crashed in Wisconsin Half a century later, the town of Manitowoc commemorates its biggest day ever.