Donald Trump has praised the role Sylvester Stallone has played in a pardon being issued to one of the greatest boxers of all ...

The Great White Hope is a powerful biopic that brings to life the struggles of Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... not for the fact Johnson was the most dominant boxer of his time.

In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become ... many when Joe Louis emerged as the next potential black champion. Neither boxer was expressly political. Johnson pushed the envelope ...