I hesitate to brag about how far we’ve come as a society when there’s still things like this going on, but the racial forces that allied against former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson in the early portion of the 20th century really are a collection of rickety, antique notions. Isn’t it high time that Johnson — convicted in 1913 of violating the Mann Act — was officially pardoned?
If you’re not familiar with Johnson’s life and legacy, watching the great Ken Burns Source: SPORTSbyBROOKS RSS Feed
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