*After talking about it back in April, President Donald Trump has posthumously granted a pardon for boxing’s first black heavyweight champion. Trump’s action comes more than 100 years after the late ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new book about cocky, flamboyant, subversive boxing champion Jack Johnson -- the first black man to take the heavyweight crown -- goes beyond his infamous battles with Jim Crow, the ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was sent to prison a century ago in a racially charged case. Trump ...

In the decade following the onset of the 20th Century pugilism, now conducted under the auspices of the Marquis of Queensbury rules, had begun to develop lines of improvement that witnessed 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 ...

The date was July 4, 1910, the location was Reno, Nevada, and the event scheduled to take place was billed as the “Fight of the Century.” Roughly 20,000 people packed into a newly built, massive ...

Sens. Harry Reid (D-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on Tuesday called on President Obama to pardon the late boxing champion Jack Johnson, Reid’s office ...

For all the things President Barack Obama says he can't do because of the political gridlock in Washington, he can right a century-old wrong simply by picking up a pen. Tomorrow wouldn't be too soon.

This week marks the 100th anniversary of Jack Johnson's 'Fight of the Century' victory against James J Jeffries. Johnson became America's first black world champion in 1908. His achievement paved 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.

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