"I've issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon posthumously to Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world," Mr Trump said. "He served 10 months for what ...

We travel all the way back to 1907 to look at the time when legendary Canadian heavyweight Tommy Burns defended his title ...

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 ...

I n its simplest form, athletes are evaluated by wins and losses. Boxers risk their lives every time they step into the ring.

Jim Jeffries, the current heavyweight champion, refused to fight Johnson or any other black boxer. On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries. After toying with the ...

Kilbane, champion for 10 more years, never gives Dundee a rematch. May 13 - Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, charged with violating the Mann Act by allegedly transporting Belle Schreiber across ...

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 ...