Adidas has announced a new Black History Month footwear collection inspired by Jesse Owens. Owens, one of the most well known African American track and field athletes in history, is considered a ...

Adidas Basketball is set to celebrate the upcoming Black History Month with a collection of sneakers inspired by a sports culture icon and a true pioneer of Black history, Jesse Owens. Drawing ...

Adidas unveils Jesse Owens-inspired shoes for Black History ... The 2.5 also includes a ‘Jesse Owens’ graphic print lace jewel and the elite sprinter’s name embroidered on the inside of the ...

Jesse Owens made history wearing Adidas shoes during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany. Skip to main content. PREMIUM PRODUCTS. TheStreet Pro Login Subscribe Portfolio (AAP) ...

In honor of Black History Month, Adidas has released a new shoe paying honor to Jesse Owens, while Nike unveiled special edition kicks for each of its signature shoes.

Tracing back to the roots, the 1936 Berlin Olympics marked a historic moment when Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in 100m, 200m, long jump, and 4x100m relay, defying Nazi racial ideologies and ...

Then, add on images of Jesse Owens, the African-American winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, who ...

Eighty years later, in 2016, the Owens family partnered with Adidas for Black History Month and introduced a line of commemorative Jesse Owens shoes. 6. He befriended his strongest Olympic challenger.

Adidas grandsons are back in the family business. ... But it was Adi who famously persuaded African-American track star Jesse Owens to wear his trainers at the 1936 Olympics.

The bitter brotherly feud that sparked the creation of sports-shoe brands Adidas and Puma in the same small German town in the 1940s is to be turned into a television series with the help of family ...

The history of Adidas goes back to 1924, when Adi Dassler and his brother, Rudolph, started manufacturing shoes out of their mother’s laundry room. Notably, the American sprinter Jesse Owens wore a ...

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 ...