Black power salute

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympic medal winners Photograph by Platon, originally published in The New Yorker (2011) Today (October 16) is the anniversary of Smith and Carlos’s famous black power Olympics medal podium protest.

1968 Olympics Black Power Salute

Protest at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City

Some you've seen, some you have not. None you will forget.

Summer Olympics moments of Mexico City

Forty eight 48 years ago track stars John Carlos, and Tommie Smith shook the 1968 Olympics with their "BLACK POWER" salute during the playing of the American national anthem as they stood on the podium after winning their Olympic medals!

black power 1960s

Miami gains a new artists’ collective with studios and a gallery in The Laundromat Art Space.

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A massive PDF compilation of writings about black radical and revolutionary movements in the US in the 20th century.