Perhaps the most famous incident occurred after Jesse Owens ... now refers to as perhaps the single greatest Olympic athlete of all time. (Owens’s record-setting four-gold tally wasn’t ...

In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race. Jesse ... fence," Owens said about Germany's leader entering Olympic Stadium.

The Cleveland home of Jesse Owens, the pioneering Black athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics, is set to be declared a city landmark. Cleveland City Council voted to ...

The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace ...

The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace ...

Born Michael Francis Owens in Dublin, he was the eldest of six children. His father, a Dublin policeman, gave him the nickname “Jesse” after the American Olympic track star—a name that stuck ...

Sad news once again to pass on from the world of Irish folk music with the April 3 passing of Michael “Jesse” Owens. Born in Dublin in 1935, Owens ...

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

but suspicion follows many top Olympic athletes of his time. Bolt had to forfeit a gold medal he won as part of a relay in the 2008 Olympics after a teammate tested positive. Jesse Owens won the ...

He also had a number of similarities with all-time great Jesse Owens. Both were born in Danville, Ala.; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland; both competed in the 1936 Olympic Games; ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who ... the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens struggles ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance ... merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master ...