That fight, between Marvin Hart and former light heavyweight champion Jack Root ... majority of proceeds from the fight films) that he agreed to meet Johnson. On the day after Christmas, 1908 ...

Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion ... a big enough name in boxing to fight for a world title. Indeed, films were an important way for promoters and fighters to make money in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and promoter Je'Caryous Johnson, best known for stage productions of seminal Black films like New Jack City and Set It Off, is launching a film studio. Je'Caryous Johnson ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail Fact or Fiction? The Legend of 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 ...