The Smith-Carlos Black Power salute: Once vilified, now praised | USA

Fifty years ago, two African American track-and-field stars, having just been awarded their medals at the 1968 Olympic Summer Games and very aware that the eyes of the world were fastened to them, bowed their heads and raised black-gloved clenched fists under a Mexico City sky. Those athletes – Tommie Smith and John Carlos – are beloved icons today. There have been statues erected of them, books