But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...

He held the title for seven years and lived an extraordinary celebrity lifestyle, making him an awesome chap well worth ...

For many boxing lovers, Muhammad Ali was the best to ever do it, but not in the mind of his former opponent George Foreman.

the maternal great-great niece of Jack Johnson, was also present, as was current heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. "I've issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon posthumously to ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...

In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, a search began for a "Great White Hope" to take back the title. American ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail National Treasure: The Mold Behind the ...

Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century — enters ...