A new documentary by film collector Carl Weingarten corrects decades of misinformation about the historic 1908 Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns heavyweight title fight film.

Jim Jeffries was a 330-pound alfalfa farmer who had left boxing behind six years earlier when he received the frantic call to defend the honor of his race. When he answered it, the “Fight of the ...

They called him the “Galveston Giant,” boxing’s first Black world heavyweight champion, but in his own hometown Jack Johnson’s profile is curiously, even shockingly, low for a man of his cultural ...