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Boxing South Africa (BSA) chairman Peter Ngatane has welcomed the gesture by US President Donald Trump who signed the presidential pardon of boxer Jack Johnson. Johnson was the first African American black boxer to conquer the heavyweight …

Donald Trump has given a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the world's first black heavyweight boxing champion. Johnson was jailed one hundred and five years ago for having a relationship with a white woman. Al Jazeera's Homara Choudhary has …

DONALD Trump has pardoned boxing's first black heavyweight champ who was jailed a century ago over his relationship with a white woman. The President said the move corrected a historical "wrong" and honoured legendary fighter Jack Johnson - who …

FILE - In this 1932 file photo, boxer Jack Johnson, the first black world heavyweight champion, poses in New York City. President Donald Trump on Thursday, May 24, 2018, granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, …