Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when ...

He rose through the boxing ranks quickly ... Boxers Stanley Ketchel (center left) and Jack Johnson (center right) stand in the ring before their famous match in Colma, Calif., ...

Boxer Jack Johnson, who was the first black world heavyweight champion, has received a posthumous presidential pardon after years of bipartisan efforts by lawmakers and family members to clear his ...

Moore said that a pardon would bring attention to the largely forgotten boxer and the racism that dogged him throughout his career. John Arthur “Jack” Johnson was born in Galveston ...

The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man ...

With that simple phrase, Jack London bound his legacy forever to boxing’s perennial expression of white resentment, the ...

President Donald Trump says he's considering a posthumous pardon for boxing's first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after the late Jack Johnson was convicted by all-white jury of ...

Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when ...

Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when ...

Those riots weren't sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...

Those riots weren't sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...

Those riots weren't sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...