Johnson’s subsequent victory sparked race riots across the US, pitching a Black community – jubilant that their champion had won – against their White counterparts, seething with anger at ...

In his heyday as heavyweight champion, which began in 1908 and ended in 1915, it wasn’t enough for promoters to find opponents for Jack Johnson. They needed white ones.

Jack White took to social media to share a fan letter he received that's meant for Jack Black and asked an interesting ...

Undefeated in the boxing ring, Jack Johnson was brought down by racist law for dating white women. More than a century after his conviction, there's a growing movement to get him pardoned.

We spoke with Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka about 'Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century,' a lyrically structured graphic recreation of the historic 1910 ...

Jack Johnson and Etta Duryea in 1910 | Library Of Congress. Mary Austin According to Johnson's 1927 autobiography, he married Marry Austin, a black girl from Galveston, Texas, in 1898.

Jack Black is back on our screens with “A Minecraft Movie,” and once you finish the film, you might be feeling a desire for more of him. Over the years, Black has cemented himself as a comedy ...

Jack Black seems to have costar Dwayne Johnson on his vision board for 2025. On Jan. 1, the actor, 55, posted a funny video on Instagram while working out in the gym for the new year and admitted ...

Black has what Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart strive for, and he didn’t engage in a bunch of rise-and-grind preaching to get it.

Jack Black said he's ready for a "School of Rock" sequel but won't go forward unless original writer, "The White Lotus" creator Mike White, returns to write it -- and he's too busy with his HBO ...

Remembering Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. The Texas-born fighter faced down his opponents and took down the ‘Great White Hope’ movement that was designed to end ...