Jack Johnson is easygoing, but he gets super stoked about plenty of things: Oranges from his own backyard. His neighbor's breadfruit hummus. The water catchment system he built with his kids. And ...

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 ...

Jack Johnson Celebrates His Father With 'To The Sea' June 12, 2010 • The singer-songwriter, once a professional surfer, discusses his father's influence and unique Hawaiian upbringing. Johnson ...

It was 1912, and Jack Johnson was king. He was the world’s heavyweight champion — the first black man to ever hold the title. He hadn’t lost a match in four years, despite repeated ...

BORN ON MARCH 31, 1878, in Galveston, Texas, the son of formerly enslaved parents, Jack Johnson would grow up to become the world heavyweight champion (1908-1915), but in so doing he also became ...

This image of Jack Johnson was part of a 1910 series included in Hassan cigarettes. NMAH In 1908, Texan Jack Johnson (1878–1946) defeated Canadian Tommy Burns to become the first African ...

John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, nicknamed the “Galveston Giant” in the ring, was born in 1878 southeast of Houston. By 1903, he became the unofficial “Negro heavyweight champion.” ...

Jack Johnson was the first African American to win the heavyweight championship when he defeated Tommy Burns in 1908. In 1912, Johnson started having to deal with legal issues due to the women he ...