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Black activist sprinter's fire burns years after Mexico City Olympics
The look was for the fire. Maybe now it would be just a spark inside John Carlos, a flicker, a remnant of the passion that so shocked the Olympics and the world 45 years ago. Time can be the great magician, reducing what once was so damn important to a m from Santa Rosa Press Democrat Read more »
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When will the bodies at the border enter the conversation on immigration? | John Carlos Frey
The only remains left of Alfonso Martinez Sanchez, when his 19-year-old daughter Gladys finally tracked him down, were a jacket, a watch, a key chain and a body so degraded that it could only be identified by his dental records. The 39-year-old butcher, from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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1968 Olympian John Carlos on the "Coming Out" of Jason Collins
Yesterday, I spoke with Dr. John Carlos, one of the “fists of freedoms” at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. [Full disclosure, I had the privilege of co-writing his memoir, The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World , 2011] Dr. Carlo from The Nation Read more »
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Tommie Smith: An Olympic journey of prejudice, then perseverance
The boos and the catcalls echoed as Tommie Smith and John Carlos walked off the medal stand in the summer of 1968, track shoes in their hands to symbolize the poverty of their youth. The noise reached a crescendo as they stepped into a tunnel labeled the from Orlando Sentinel Read more »
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Olympian Tommie Smith inspires East Bay kids through Youth Initiative track and field clinics
Tommie Smith signs an autograph for Marcellus Duncan, 9, of Antioch, a member of the East County Cheetahs track team, during the Tommie Smith Track and Field Clinic at Contra Costa College, in San Pablo, Calif., on Saturday, March 9, 2013. Olympian Smith from Contra Costa Times Read more »
