They called it “The Fight Of The Century” — and they actually meant it. A stadium was constructed solely to host the event, then it was torn down, moved from San Francisco to Reno, Nevada, and rebuilt ...

“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 ...

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 ...

*After talking about it back in April, President Donald Trump has posthumously granted a pardon for boxing’s first black heavyweight champion. Trump’s action comes more than 100 years after the late ...

A film about the first Black man to ever hold the world heavyweight boxing crown is premiering this weekend after filming took place in the Lehigh Valley. Appropriately premiering during Black 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. “Sylvester Stallone called me with the story ...

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, ...