If you haven't familiarized yourself with the story of Jesse Owens, you should do so by visiting the Jesse Owens Memorial Park.

From humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son in Oakville, Alabama to standing atop an Olympic podium wearing gold, Jesse Owens made it look easy, but it was not. Racial and socioeconomic barriers were just a few of the obstacles Owens overcame.

Equipped with a hard work ethic that he learned from his parents and feet that could fly, Owens did what no other had done before – he won four gold medals at one Olympiad.

Returning home to a ticker tape parade, Owens’ life was changed forever.

 The number of films that children are likely to see that include smoking has dropped for the fifth straight year, a new report finds.

Overall, there has been a nearly 72 percent drop since 2005 in smoking depictions in movies rated G, PG or PG-13 -- from 2,093 incidents of onscreen smoking to 595 in 2010. In addition, the average number of smoking incidents in youth-rated films dropped more than 66 percent -- from about 20 percent in 2005 to 6.8 percent in 2010.

"This study shows that studios know how to eliminate smoking from youth-rated movies and have nothing to fear from a policy requiring them to do so," said Vince Willmore, a spokesman for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "The Motion Picture Association of America should move quickly to adopt a policy requiring an R-rating for any movie that depicts smoking that is not in a historical setting," he said.