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 ...

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 Johnson’s victory over Jeffries established black athletes as equal to whites and no matter what white media reported, Johnson speed and ring savvy erased the various stereotypes of black ...

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 ...