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Trump grants posthumous pardon to black boxing champ Jack Johnson

Name: Trump grants posthumous pardon to black boxing champ Jack Johnson
Uploaded: 2018-05-24T10:35:33-07:00
Channel: NBC Palm Springs
Description: President Donald Trump pardoned black boxing icon Jack Johnson Thursday, posthumously nullifying the heavyweight champion’s conviction handed down by an all-white jury for an interracial relationship more than 100 years ago. Johnson’s story was brought to Trump’s attention in recent months by actor Sylvester Stallone, who famously played the scrappy underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in […]

By: NBC Palm Springs

May 24, 2018

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