The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.” You will ...

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 ...

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has revealed his top five boxers of all time, and there are some surprise ...

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 ...

“Last on His Feet” shows why the Galveston native and first African-American heavyweight champion remains a compelling figure a century after his heyday. On July 4, 1910, boxer and Galveston native ...

A bipartisan group lawmakers, including Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.), are pushing President Obama to grant a posthumous pardon to former heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson.

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new book about cocky, flamboyant, subversive boxing champion Jack Johnson -- the first black man to take the heavyweight crown -- goes beyond his infamous battles with Jim Crow, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Saturday, President Donald Trump said he was weighing whether or not to grant a posthumous pardon to boxer Jack Johnson, after it was suggested to him by actor Sylvester Stallone. "His trials and ...