{"id":18690,"date":"2018-10-16T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18690"},"modified":"2018-10-16T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:25:01","slug":"from-black-power-salute-to-kaepernick-whats-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18690","title":{"rendered":"From Black Power Salute to Kaepernick: What&#8217;s changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>They stood united on the Olympic podium, heads bowed, black-gloved fists raised in the Black Power salute while the &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner&#8221; rang out to honor athletic achievement. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The gesture by US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics became one of the century&#8217;s most iconic sports images, one now celebrated in popular memory as a progressive moment.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The reality, however, was quite different, and this week&#8217;s 50th anniversary falls at a time when athletes, such as Colin Kaepernick and Serena Williams, are once again in the spotlight for their activism.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)They stood united on the Olympic podium, heads bowed, black-gloved fists raised in the Black Power salute while the &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner&#8221; rang out to honor athletic achievement. The gesture by US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics became one of the century&#8217;s most iconic sports images, one now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}