Will President Obama Step in to Clear Jack Johnson's Name? Dec. 11, 2009 -- The Justice Department won't recommend a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the nation's first African-American heavyweight ...

Jack Johnson and friends are rolling into an ambitious 2026 with new songs, a new tour, a new documentary film project, and ...

“Last on His Feet” shows why the Galveston native and first African-American heavyweight champion remains a compelling figure a century after his heyday. On July 4, 1910, boxer and Galveston native ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON, DC — President Barack Obama has ...

Johnson was boxing's first black heavyweight champion. President Donald Trump signed a full posthumous pardon for former heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson in a surprise Oval Office ceremony alongside ...

Jack Johnson's new album, Sleep Through the Static, is a little more electric and a little darker than his previous efforts — but just a little. At its core, it's still vintage Jack Johnson. The ...

CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 19: Musician and Singer Jack Johnson performs at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island during 'Farm Aid 30' on September 19, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo By Raymond ...

Global protests sparked by George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis are likely never to be forgotten, but less well known are the race riots that flared across the US 110 years ago.

It's been 18 years since Jack Johnson released his very first full-length album, 1999's Nice Guys Sleep Alone, but if you ask him, not much has changed — he's still making thoughtful, considered music ...

Jack Johnson is easygoing, but he gets super stoked about plenty of things: Oranges from his own backyard. His neighbor's breadfruit hummus. The water catchment system he built with his kids. And ...

President Trump has granted a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion, following through on a tweet last month. The pardon, which wasn't on the president's public ...

Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson’s Cafe de Champion in September 1912. Heavyweight boxing ...