Johnson was boxing's first black heavyweight champion. President Donald Trump signed a full posthumous pardon for former heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson in a surprise Oval Office ceremony alongside ...

Q: Where did you grow up? A: On the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii Q: When did you start playing guitar? A: I started playing when I was 14. Q: What was the first song you learned on the guitar? A: I ...

"Jack Johnson is a trailblazer and a legend, whose boxing career was cut short due to unjust laws and racial persecution," King said. "I urge the president to do the right thing and take the final ...

Jack Johnson’s 1913 court documents go public, detailing racially motivated trial of boxing champ Documents detail racism in the process when an all-white jury convicted Black heavyweight ...

“Jack Johnson,” said the man who’d been the nation’s top legal authority from 2007 to 2015, “no question was convicted unfairly. That might be a historical injustice that might need to ...

Jack Johnson claims that Tina Johnson and his father Jack Sr. bought a house in Manhattan Beach, California, with his money but without the player's knowledge, according to the report.

Jack Johnson is easygoing, but he gets super stoked about plenty of things: Oranges from his own backyard. His neighbor's breadfruit hummus. The water catchment system he built with his kids.

On July 4, 1910, boxer and Galveston native Jack Johnson won what was dubbed "the fight of the century." Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion, was pitted against Jim Jeffries.

“Jack Johnson was a boxing legend and pioneer whose career and reputation were ruined by a racially charged conviction more than a century ago,” McCain said in a statement to the Associated Press.

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated prosecution of boxing's first Black heavyweight champion.

Calling him “a tragic figure,” Ali added, “Marvin Gaye and Jack Johnson are my dream roles, but I really just want the opportunity to go on the hero’s journey. I’ve never done that.” ...

Jack Johnson was hard at work on All the Light Above It Too – his first album since 2013, due September 8th – when he got a phone call from an old friend. “He said he’d been watching a ...