In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of ... Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line’ – the boxer’s defeat of Jeffries “ripped the veil off of ...

In 1908, at age 30, he became the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title when he defeated the Australian Tommy Burns, the reigning champion. But it was his 1910 bout against Jim ...

The logo for his tavern on Martha’s Vineyard transformed a black Labrador-boxer mix into an international emblem for summertime. By Remy Tumin Robert Douglas, who built the Black Dog Tavern on ...