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Lakers forward Wesley Johnson left Sunday's game due to a strained hip flexor, according to ESPN. Johnson will not return to the contest. He's already been ruled out for Monday's game in Portland ...
Jack Johnson's historic boxing win on July 4,1910, upset much of America. But the next Black world heavyweight champ remains ...
Spencer Collins, 4, boxes with a statue of Jack Johnson, during the dedication ceremony honoring the first black world heavyweight champion, at Jack Johnson Park,on Feb. 1, 2014, in Galveston.
The Lakers brought in Wesley Johnson last year, then re-signed him over the summer, hoping the former 4th overall pick (2010) will finally break through as an impact two-way player.
Jack Johnson, the first black man to become world heavyweight champion, was posthumously pardoned Thursday by President Donald Trump for a 1913 conviction for violating the Mann Act.
In Jim Crow America, it's no wonder that Jack Johnson was the most despised African-American of his generation. The first black boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Johnson humiliated white ...
This image of Jack Johnson was part of a 1910 series included in Hassan cigarettes. NMAH In 1908, Texan Jack Johnson (1878–1946) defeated Canadian Tommy Burns to become the first African ...