Johnson won the title from the Canadian boxer Tommy Burns in 1908 ... per a PBS report that accompanied Ken Burns’ Jack Johnson documentary Unforgivable Blackness, that she would “rather ...

Mahershala Ali, Boxer Jack Johnson Shutterstock Ali has stated ... Their first project was the documentary series We Have a Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, directed by Amy ...

and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns hopes to do the same with former heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson. Burns' Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson airs from 9-11 p.m. Monday and ...

The 2004 documentary "Unforgivable Blackness" tells the story of Jack Johnson and was directed by filmmaker Ken Burns, who joins us now on Skype. Ken, thanks so much for being here. You are one of ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... called him and told the story of how Jack Johnson, the sport’s first black ...

According to Theresa Runstedtler – author of ‘Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line’ – the boxer’s ... initiated by documentary maker Ken Burns ...

Two years later, he faced off against boxer Jim Jeffries ... simply because Jack Johnson was unforgivably black,” documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told CNN’s Carol Costello in 2005.

More recently, the documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," directed by Ken ... state lines for "immoral" purposes. The boxer died in 1946. His great-great niece ...

Today: Jack Johnson. Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said ... boxing continued when he was knocked out by well-known boxer Joe Choynoski in the third round. As prizefighting was still ...

According to Theresa Runstedtler – author of ‘Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line’ – the boxer’s ... initiated by documentary maker Ken Burns ...