including efforts to prevent them from competing amid whites – like Jesse Owens, like Jackie Robinson. White supremacy refuses to accept God-given talents in people of color. Need a break? Play the ...

According to The Lantern, Ohio State’s student newspaer, OSU’s Afrikan American Farewell Ceremony has honored graduates of color since ... and field legend Jesse Owens, had to live off-campus ...

The festival’s opening film, “Color Book,” a two-time NAACP Image ... who played John Lewis in “Selma” and made his debut as Jesse Owens in “Race,” gives a nuanced performance ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson broke baseball's color line when he started at first ... street sweeper after winning a silver medal behind Jesse Owens in the 200 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson broke baseball's color line when he started at first base for the ... could only find work as a street sweeper after winning a silver medal behind Jesse Owens in the 200 meters ...

“And anyone that suggests that Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier is not the seminal ... whether it’s Jesse Owens or in 1968, the track stars [Tommie Smith and John Carlos] and ...

I just finished watching the movie "Race," which tells the story of track star Jesse Owens. Before the 1936 ... We recognized that each of us, regardless of color, possessed merit.