Lee Evans, Olympic champ famous for his black power salute, dies at 74

Lee Evans, the record-setting American sprinter famous for his activism and iconic black power salute in the 1986 Olympics, has died at age 74.

The United States Track and Field announced Evans’ death on its website.

According to The Mercury News, a newspaper in San Jose, Calif., where Evans grew up, the gold medalist sprinter breathed his last on Wednesday in Nigeria where he had been unconscious for the past week after suffering from a stroke.

The newspaper quoted Segun Odegbami, Nigerian football icon and a close friend of Evans, as saying that he collapsed last week…