TODAY IN BOOM HISTORY: 10/16/1968- Olympic track gold medalist, Tommie Smith (center) & bronze medalist, John Carlos (right) raise gloved fists during the awards ceremony in a salute to “those individuals that were lynched or killed & that no one said a prayer for, that were hung & tarred” in America. Both athletes are expelled from the games & ostracized by the sports community for what was seen as an unsanctioned interjection of domestic politics into the Olympics. Back home, both Smith and Ca
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