Posts Tagged ‘Jack Johnson’
Unforgivable Blackness (Documentary Trailer)
February 29, 2016
Sometimes it takes outsiders to tell you about yourself. PBS America – out of the United Kingdom – put out this documentary on the first Black American boxing champion, Jack Johnson. Dude was ahead of his time ways that would still scare a good amount of White people today. Just saying.
This film by Ken Burns tells the story of one of the greatest boxers of all time and his refusal to accept the rules of a society that considered people of his colour to be second-class citizens. This is the story of a man who refused to recognise racial differences and who forced America to reconsider its very definition of freedom.
Check out this trailer. Watching this documentary would be the way to end your Black History Month viewing with a bang…to the rib cage. Damn. Johnson was a baaaad maaan (Muhammad Ali voice).
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BLITZ – 5/4/11: Jack Johnson Wins
May 4, 2011
Yeah Yeah Yeah….. We know you missed the BLITZ on Monday following the breaking news with Osama Bin Laden chillin’ in Pakistan before catching a couple of ‘speedknots’ but we figured they’ll be plenty of news for you follow without our help. Well we’re back like Black Jack Johnson punching our way out over the hump this Wednesday. Check out the BLITZ! News & info from around the world in just a few clicks! Hit it after the jump….
