On the eve of what would have been Jack Johnson’s 147th birthday, people on Sunday gathered at the Nia Cultural Center in ...

Johnson hoboed to Chicago in the spring of 1899. He realized that to get anywhere in the boxing business, he needed to find a white manager, but he was unable to find anyone willing to represent him.

Donald Trump has praised the role Sylvester Stallone has played in a pardon being issued to one of the greatest boxers of all ...

Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912. Assistant U.S. District Attorney Harry A. Parkin was not satisfied, and began looking for other women who Johnson might have transported across state ...

Harder because it happened so long ago. 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 ...

Jack Johnson, dubbed the “Galveston Giant,” was born on the island March 31, 1878, learned to fight on the docks and became ...

Two panels from Last on His Feet, depicting boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries Art ©2023 by Youssef Daoudi. Text ©2023 by Adrian Matejka. By permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation, a ...

Jack Johnson, left, fought Jim Jeffries for more than the undisputed heavyweight title; Scott Joplin aspired to more than "King of Ragtime" renown. George Arents Collection / New York Public ...