Mr. Tommie Smith. Detroit native Jalen Rose is a member of the University of Michigan’s iconoclastic Fab Five, who shook up the college hoops world in the early ’90s. He played 13 seasons in ...

Smith was an early and staunch supporter ... allow our audience to see themselves in Tommie.” Literally: One of Kaino’s favorite pieces is a life-size sculpture of Smith cut in half vertically ...

Tommie Smith’s decision to raise his fist in support of racial justice during the 1968 Olympic games has defined the last half-century of his life ... chronicles his early days as the son ...

That autumn night at Estadio Olimpico Universitario might not have been so memorable if Tommie Smith and John Carlos ... viewed as racist and anti-Semitic. Early in 1968, the OPHR orchestrated ...

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 runner has put his ...

What Yoko Ono, one of the early innovators of performance ... CUT (from BLACKS IN THE POOL – Tommie),” a larger-than-life aluminum cutout sculpture of Smith holding his raised-fist pose ...

“This is my world record wall,” said Tommie ... Smith and Carlos were booed from the stadium (though there were some cheers), removed from the team and blocked from competing for life.

The recognizable image has never felt more relevant: Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the medal ... 60th anniversary of the protest. But after early screenings, they continued to tinker with ...