They needed white ones. The search for the “Great White Hope,” a movement started by noted author Jack London, who found Johnson’s position as heavyweight champ insufferable, began in 1910 ...

As you see in the book, Jack Johnson's life is unbelievably rich. I spent two years researching [his] life before I started writing any poems. And so I'd collected an inordinate amount of archival ...

Unruly is a six-part limited series for HBO, based on Ken Burns’s PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson and Geoffrey C. Ward’s companion book.

Long before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Jack Johnson broke down racial boundaries ... The Ring Record Book lists his record as 79-8 with 46 knockouts, 12 draws and 14 no ...

Jim Jeffries fighting Jack Johnson in the “fight of the century” on July 4, 1910, in Reno, Nev. Johnson, however, won the fight, knocking Jeffries down in the 15th round. News of the bout and ...