by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2018 | Podcast
NPR reporter Karen Grigsby Bates relates the story of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 1968 Olympics 200-meter running event, then bowed their heads and raised their black-gloved fists on the podium...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 7, 2018 | Opinion
In the same week that Nike released a new ad narrated by Colin Kaepernick and some offended fans burned their Nike gear, Jeré Longman’s essay draws a parallel between the raised fists of athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 1969 Olympics to protest...
by lindaoppenheim | May 24, 2018 | interview
In an interview with Dave Zirin in the Nation, Professor Amira Rose Davis talks about some of the forgotten heroines of athletic resistance like Wilma Rudolph and Rose Robinson. David tells their stories in her forthcoming book, Can’t Eat A Medal: The Lives and...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
In Joy-Ann Reid’s analysis in the Washington Post of the achievement of the American black women Olympic athletes, she states that “the measure of their reception is a measure of the uneven progress of black women in terms of the full measure of...
