The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a provocative new PBS documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. The two-part film shows the gritty details of Johnson's life through archival footage ...

Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912. Assistant U.S. District Attorney Harry A. Parkin was not satisfied, and began looking for other women who Johnson might have transported across state ...

Jack Johnson had won the title six and a half years earlier, in December 1908, but had had to travel to Australia to beat a Canadian in order to ascend to the throne for which he had been the ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...