Image from Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Donald Trump has posthumously pardoned the late heavyweight boxer, Jack Johnson. "Today I've issued an executive grant of clemency ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was sent to prison a century ago in a racially charged case. Trump ...

One hundred and ten years ago yesterday, one of the most famous, celebrated and resented men in America stepped between the ropes of a ring that had been erected in Havana’s Oriental Park racetrack to ...

A lineal champion in boxing is the fighter who beat the previous reigning champion, or top fighter, in a division. There is no set criteria for when a lineal champion is first named, but it is a title ...