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A PARDON FOR JACK JOHNSON

Before Muhammad Ali, there was Jack Johnson, boxing’s first African-American heavyweight champion of the world. His 1912 conviction by an all-white jury on what many claim was a trumped up, racially motivated morals charge, have many pleading with President Obama to formally pardon the icon before he leaves the White House: and the clock is ticking! We have the latest.

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