Before you see 'Race,' read how a hardscrabble beginning helped shape the Jesse Owens "creation myth" ... Alabama, James Cleveland Owens was the tenth and last child of Henry and Mary Emma Owens.

The daughters of Olympic legend Jesse Owens delight in the fact that their input was so instrumental in shaping the narrative of Race. ... a former educator who at 83 is Owens oldest child.

When I sat down with actor Stephan James last week to talk about his starring role in the Jesse Owens biopic “Race” — which spans a critical three-year period, from 1933 (his freshman year ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, ... Owens grew up in Cleveland as one of 10 children of former Alabama sharecroppers.

Philip Hersh’s essay marking Jesse Owens’ centennial year (“Jesse Owens transcends all races,” Sept. 7) is an astute tribute to this icon for the ages. It is also a significant history ...

Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. The son of a sharecropper and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was the youngest of 10 children ...

Owens’ three daughters, including oldest child Gloria Owens Hemphill, ... Since it is well-known that many honors for Jesse Owens did not come until after his death in 1980, ...

The children are related to Jesse Owens. The great Olympian was the first African-American man to win four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany.

“That child didn’t see black or white, he just saw a hero, the fastest man on the planet, the great Jesse Owens. I think that’s very telling. ...

Just before I saw “Race,” I was asked where I was going. When I said “to see a movie about Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympian,” I was then asked, “Oh, he was that bobsledder, right?” This ...

Jesse’s home, situated on East 100th Street, could be made a historic landmark by the council as early as next week. President Griffin explains why that matters: ...