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 ...

Image from Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Donald Trump has posthumously pardoned the late heavyweight boxer, Jack Johnson. "Today I've issued an executive grant of clemency ...

President Trump said Saturday he is considering pardoning the late boxing champion Jack Johnson following a call from actor Sylvester Stallone. “Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of ...

Donald Trump shared a tweet on Saturday declaring that he’s considering a pardon for boxer Jack Johnson after Sylvester Stallone reached out to him to make the request. “His trials and tribulations ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see ...

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 on Thursday granted late boxer Jack Johnson with a pardon more than 100 years after he was convicted by an all-white jury of taking a white woman across state lines. Several ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most notable athletes in American history is getting the Hollywood treatment, with a two-time Oscar winner playing him. Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion in boxing history, ...

They called him the “Galveston Giant,” boxing’s first Black world heavyweight champion, but in his own hometown Jack Johnson’s profile is curiously, even shockingly, low for a man of his cultural ...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is considering granting a posthumous pardon to boxer Jack Johnson on the advice of actor Sylvester Stallone. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he ...