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FILE - In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward during the playing of the national anthem after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. (AP Photo/File)

AP Was There: Black fists raised at ‘68 Mexico City Olympics

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 1968 file photo, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos raise their gloved fists after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Some athletes are criticizing the International Olympic Committee for prohibiting political protests on the medal podium. Olympic officials reminded athletes last week not to make political statements at the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/File)

Protests or not, politics and Olympics are intertwined

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward as they extend gloved hands skyward in during the playing of the &quot;Star Spangled Banner&quot; after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. When Smith and Carlos raised their fists 50 years ago at the Mexico City Olympics, they had a captive audience, back in the age when TV was king and the entire audience was rapt. A half-century later, many of the messages our athletes disseminate are every bit as powerful, but the audience is much more distracted. (AP Photo/File)

Smith, Carlos set fear aside as they raised their fists

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2016, file photo, John Carlos, left, and Tommie Smith pose for a portrait at Georgetown University in Washington. When Smith and Carlos raised their fists 50 years ago at the Mexico City Olympics, they had a captive audience, back in the age when TV was king and the entire audience was rapt. A half-century later, many of the messages our athletes disseminate are every bit as powerful, but the audience is much more distracted. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

AP Was There: Smith and Carlos protest during 1968 Olympics

By WILL GRIMSLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 1968, file photo, United States' Madeline Manning catches her breath after winning the women's 800-meter run in record time of 2:00.9, at the Olympics in Mexico City. Fifty years ago, Madeline Manning Mims became the first black woman to win the Olympic 800 meters. Her story got overshadowed at the 1968 Mexico City Games by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who raised black-gloved fists on the medal stand during the national anthem to protest America's social injustices. (AP Photo/File)

800-meter Olympic champ Mims remains pioneer 50 years later

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2016, file photo, John Carlos, left, and Tommie Smith pose for a portrait at Georgetown University in Washington. When Smith and Carlos raised their fists 50 years ago at the Mexico City Olympics, they had a captive audience, back in the age when TV was king and the entire audience was rapt. A half-century later, many of the messages our athletes disseminate are every bit as powerful, but the audience is much more distracted. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

50 years after fists: Who would listen, who would care?

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

In this Sept. 26, 2018, photo, people can be seen reflected in the mirrored surface of a sculpture outside the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The sculpture &quot;Invisible Man (Salute)&quot; is part of an exhibition titled &quot;With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith,&quot; which reflects on a protest by African-American sprinters at the 1968 Summer Olympics. The front of the sculpture is a flat, mirrored surface, while the back is a lifelike statue of Olympian Tommie smith on the medal podium with his arm raised in protest. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)

Exhibition reflects on 1968 Olympic protest and its legacy

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward while extending gloved hands skyward during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Oct. 16, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. They called it a "human rights salute.'' (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

Colin Kaepernick joins documentary on sprinter Tommie Smith, 1968 ‘Black Power salute’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Olympian Tommie Smith applauds athletes’ social activism

Associated Press

John Carlos, left, and Tommie Smith smile during an event in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. Carlos and Smith voiced their support for Colin Kaepernick and other athletes staging national anthem protests, 48 years after they raised their gloved fists on the podium in a symbolic protest at the Olympics. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Raised-fist protesters Smith, Carlos support Kaepernick

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

FILe - In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward while extending gloved hands skyward during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. Smith and Carlos, the American sprinters whose raised-fist salutes at the 1968 Olympics are an ageless sign of race-inspired protest, will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House next week for its meeting with President Barack Obama. Smith and Carlos were sent home from the Olympics after raising their black-gloved fists in a symbolic protest during the U.S. national anthem. They called it a ``human rights salute.''The USOC asked them to serve as ambassadors as it tries to make its own leadership more diverse. (AP Photo/File)

Raised-fist protesters Smith, Carlos to join US team in DC

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, in New York. Professional athletes have worn &quot;I Can't Breathe&quot; messages in protest of a grand jury ruling not to indict an officer in the death of a New York man. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

SNYDER: Thankfully, some athletes have been willing to address issues of racism

By Deron Snyder - The Washington Times

Vandals damage statue of ‘68 Olympian Tommie Smith

By TERRY COLLINS - Associated Press

At the same 1968 Olympic games during which George Foreman waved an American flag to celebrate his victory, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) stirred controversy when they gave a Black Power salute on the medals stand to protest racial injustice. (AP Photo)

Olympic champion Tommie Smith inspires a new generation of track and field athletes

By Carla Peay - The Washington Times

In March 2012, then-Miami Heat star LeBron James tweeted this photo of him and his teammates donning hoodies for a team photo as a tribute to Trayvon Martin, the Florida youth slain a month earlier. (Associated Press)

More NBA players having their say on social issues

By Carla Peay - The Washington Times