Jamaica may finally have found a successor to sprint legend Usain Bolt, after 12-year-old Brianna Lyston produced an astonishing display of sprinting at the 2017 Boys and Girls Championships.
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The Fight In Claressa Shields
During the 2012 London Olympics, Claressa Shields stood in the ring, stone-faced and focused.
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7 Traditional African Sports that Should Be in the Olympics
The Olympic Games may go back 3,000 years to Ancient Greece, but the international sporting event that takes place every four years didn’t take on its modern form until 1896.
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Ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics—Black Lives Matter Activists March in Solidarity with Brazil
It’s becoming quite apparent that black lives are being snuffed out by police globally (see Canada and France).
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Iconic African-American Olympians Participate in Panel at Heinz History Center
It remains one of the most enduring photos in sports photography: Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medals dangling over their penny numbers, eyes down, black-gloved fists thrust into the air.
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Who Shot Sports – A Historial Survey Of Sports Photography At Brooklyn Museum
The sports photography has a very rich and engaging history. These photographers have contributed greatly to the universal appeal of sports, but also to the development of camera and film technology.
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Muhammad Ali Did Not “Transcend” Race
Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it.
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Muhammad Ali and the Black Panthers – KOLUMN Magazine
As for Muhammad Ali, he was not only aware of the Panthers. He saw what they were doing as a critical contribution to Black Freedom.
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Before They Were Lonnie and Muhammad Ali – KOLUMN Magazine
The photograph of Muhammad Ali with his future wife, Lonnie, which ran in Sunday’s magazine, has a fascinating back story.
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‘Blood Brothers’: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
In “Blood Brothers,” Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith lift the curtain on the provocative history surrounding Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X’s complex bond.
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