February 2019 Page 3 Preparedness training pays off Page 5 John Carlos recounts hard lessons he learned as a boy about prejudice and the color his skin. Carlos still taking stand for human rights Meydenbauer Park almost done By Claude Iosso, It’s Your City...
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February 2019 Page 3 Preparedness training pays off Page 5 John Carlos recounts hard lessons he learned as a boy about prejudice and the color his skin. Carlos still taking stand for human rights Meydenbauer Park almost done By Claude Iosso, It’s Your City Editor support for a boycott. Carlos said King equated it to Carlos throwing a rock from a boat into a In the 1968 Olympics, U.S. track stars John Carlos still lake, sending ripples far and wide, telling and Tommie Smith bowed their heads and raised Page 11 people around the world, in a peaceful way, that gloved fists while they stood on the medals something was amiss. podium, sending a message worldwide. Fifty years later, Carlos is still taking a stand against injustice. Carlos couldn’t speak from the podium in Mexico City about what moved him to raise his fist, but “I have to stand up for something before I leave in his presentation in Bellevue, the entertaining here,” Carlos told an overflow crowd in the City storyteller recounte
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