While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

Take that, Jesse Owens and your four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-run Berlin, or Babe Ruth and your 60 home runs ...

As conservatives try to change how history is taught in our schools, here are some Black history facts you should know.

Jesse Owens was one the biggest Olympic heroes of all time. When he took four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, it put the lie to Hitler’s claims of Aryan superiority. After his ...

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.

He scored three in 2002 in Salt Lake City, including a pair in the final to beat the rival United States on its own ice and deliver Canada its first Olympic men's hockey gold medal in 50 years.

A gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the first ever hosted in the United States, just sold for $545,371 at auction. The medal, which is smaller than its modern counterparts and made from ...

Olympic medals are displayed on a custom-designed trunk by Louis Vuitton at the Champions Park at Trocadero during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. © 2024 ...