“Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics”, a new documentary executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, tells a story of the award-winning athlete. It airs today, Wednesday, June 19 ...

The very sight of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium can trigger a complex mixture of awe and dread. For England’s players, whose predecessors performed the Nazi salute here in 1938, this eerie citadel serves ...

U.S. track star Jesse Owens made history at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 75 years ago, when he destroyed the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. He brought... Jesse Owens' Legacy, And Hitler's Oak Trees U.S.

Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The world ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz... Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump Story A Myth? The Track ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - People walking by Ferry Field the last few weeks noticed a piece of history was missing. The historic field in Ann Arbor used for University of Michigan track was once the site where ...

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Jesse Owens, Olympic gold medalist and a youth sports instructor, talks with boys at the Cedar Rapids YMCA in May 1960. Owens is holding one of the awards presented that night, while a boy on the far ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

As Owens gingerly did a few stretches near the runway, a crowd of athletes, those fans already on the field, and others from the stands scrambled for a viewing spot at the finish point, the newly-dug ...