Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The ...

The Olympic Games will soon begin. The high school where legendary track star Jesse Owens got his start is reviving the boys track and field team.

One of the taglines for the biopic Race, about legendary American athlete Jesse Owens, is: In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens changed the world. The "10.3 seconds" is the time it took Owens, played ...

Owens’s triumph at the 1936 Summer Olympics defied racist ideology and inspired generations of athletes.

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s. In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

The story of how Owens stunned the world, and Hitler, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is the subject of the movie "Race," debuting today in theaters nationwide.

Watch the story behind Jesse Owens' golden moment in the 1936 Berlin Olympics as he became the first American to win four track and field gold medals.

Jesse Owens had an unmatched performance at the 1935 Big Ten Championships for Ohio State.

An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold for a record $1.4 million, SCP Auctions of Laguna Niguel reported Sunday.

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.