The Jesse Owens Classic is still conducted every spring – and his granddaughter Marlene Dortch still attends the event and talks to the team. Homage – a local T-shirt company – still sells ...

The Olympic Games will soon begin. The high school where legendary track star Jesse Owens got his start is reviving the boys track and field team. One of the most closely watched events at the ...

Jesse Owens’ four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is the stuff of legend. “A man who's a second class citizen at home, son of a sharecropper, grandson of slaves, going over to ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse Owens and German long jumper, Carl Ludwig Hermann "Luz" Long.

This is the guy who showed the master race they were the minor race. Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then on," says Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Jim Murray on ESPN Classic's ...