“I’ve found no better way of avoiding race prejudice than to act with people of other races as if prejudice did not exist.” — Jack Johnson, world heavyweight champion boxer, 1908-1915. In an era of ...

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 the ...

Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson’s Cafe de Champion in September 1912. Heavyweight boxing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The legacy of Jack Johnson, America’s first black heavyweight boxing champion and one of the sports most polarizing figures, lives on more than a century after his racially ...

President Trump granted a rare posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, boxing's first African-American heavyweight champion. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 of violating the federal Mann Act, which ...

On Saturday, President Donald Trump said via Twitter that he's considering a "full pardon" of Jack Johnson, the world's first black heavyweight champion during the Jim Crow era, who was arrested for ...

Global protests sparked by George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis are likely never to be forgotten, but less well known are the race riots that flared across the US 110 years ago.