Jesse Owens takes the last jump in the 220-yard hurdles event, at a time of 22.6 seconds, at the Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 25, 1935.

He allegedly told TMZ that it would be a mistake for Mel Owens to close himself off to dating women of all ages. Gerry Turner ...

Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics weaves together the story of Owens’ rise as a world-class athlete with an account of how Hitler’s Nazi Party took root in Germany, culminating in ...

It is impossible to define Jesse Owens with mere numbers, for it would suggest that a life story so consequential could be told fully in quantifiable terms. Yet a number is at the genesis of this ...

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The world record-breaking track athlete, who famously went up against Hitler’s ideologies and the ...

Hitler didn’t actually snub Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics, but the story is too good not to tell, so “Race” tells it anyway — adding the (true) detail that Owens was snubbed back home ...

The image of Owens — one of 18 Black athletes on the U.S. team — atop the podium and surrounded by individuals giving the Nazi salute has become part of Olympic lore.

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out ...

On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country.. When Owens arrived in Germany’s ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin — he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay, and the long jump — made him a track and field great.