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.” You will ...

Thursday, Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Jack Johnson, the first Black man to become heavyweight champion of the world in 1908. “Today I’ve issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, ...

Editor’s Note: The Sentinel sports staff is putting together a summer series looking at the legacies of the most influential African-American athletes in history. Today: Jack Johnson. Famed ...

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a pardon for the late boxer Jack Johnson, an African-American convicted a century ago for the crime of taking a woman ...

Jack Johnson stepped into the boxing ring for the last time nearly a century ago. The Galveston native has been gone since 1946, when he sped away from a North Carolina diner that refused him service ...

President Donald Trump has granted a full posthumous pardon to boxing legend Jack Johnson, about a month after he announced he was considering clemency. Trump granted the pardon Thursday. The ...

Global protests sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis are likely never to be forgotten, but less well known are the race riots that flared across the US 110 years ago.

The two stars of the play and movie reminisce about their experience adapting the life story of boxer Jack Johnson Based on a True Story Will Harris James Earl Jones (right) played Jack Johnson, while ...

Sen. John McCain is looking for a presidential pardon for boxing legend Jack Johnson, the first black man ever to capture the heavyweight championship in the U.S. Johnson violated the Mann Act in 1913 ...

President Donald Trump has granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after what Trump said many feel was a racially motivated injustice. Jack ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a posthumous pardon to boxer Jack Johnson on the advice of actor Sylvester Stallone. "Today I've issued an executive grant ...