When Jesse Owens returned to the United States after his stunning performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he should’ve been welcomed as a national hero. He’d won four gold medals and captured ...

Jesse Owens' grandson said his track-legend grandfather's successes at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin were a 'thumb in the eye' to Adolf Hitler on Thursday. To commemorate the 4th of July ...

Jesse Owens' legendary performance at the 1936 Summer Olympics has not been recounted quite like this. "Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics" – which premieres Wednesday night on History ...

This summer ... Jesse Owens once said. “A lifetime of training, for just 10 seconds.” Yet that lifetime of training, which propelled Owens into the history books with his performance in the ...

In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race. Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. 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 ...

Jesse Owens had one of the most memorable days in track and field history 90 years ago this weekend in the 1935 Big Ten Track ...