Former American Olympic track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos , who made world headlines after their iconic fist-raising protest on the podium after winning in the 1968 Olympics, will be at UConn on Wednesday as part of the 2025 Dodd Human Rights Summit.

Smith and Carlos will be on campus in Storrs for the opening keynote conversation in the Student Union Theatre, moderated by ESPN’s William C. Rhoden. The conversation will launch a three-day summit examining the global and domestic issues at play in the intersection of human rights and sports.

The summit – titled “Sport & Human Rights” – will bring together “prominent professional and collegiate athletes, thought leaders, policymakers, activists, scholars, students, artists, and business leaders from around the world to examin

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