The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, produced and directed by Ken Burns, and its companion book by Geoffrey C. Ward. He is one of several new creative auspices who have joined the project in ...

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.