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The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR)

Group formed to protest South Africa and Rhodesia’s participation in the olympics, the restoration of Muhammad Ali’d boxing title, the removal of Avery Brundage as president of the International Olympic Committee, and the hiring of more African-American assistant coaches during 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were members.

Tommie Smith & John Carlos

Medalists in the 1968 Summer Olympics 200-meter race wore black socks without shoes and black gloves when they lowered their heads as a silent gesture of protest while raising their fists in the air while the American national anthem played during their medal ceremony. They were members of The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR).

Commercial Spectacle & Public Art

Why I can’t take any commentary on Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime performance serious…on either side. Pedro Lasch states early in the first lecture that “public art has always been a great way to understand entire societies. It’s through our definition of the public that we define the relations between the visible, the invisible, the national and …

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