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This undated photo shows
boxer Jack Johnson.
Associated Press
Trump

considering

pardon for

late boxer

Jack Johnson

By JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
(AP) — President Donald
Trump says he’s consid-
ering a posthumous par-
don for boxing’s first black
heavyweight champion
more than 100 years after
the late Jack Johnson was
convicted by all-white jury
of accompanying a white
woman across state lines.
Trump announced Sat-
urday on Twitter that the
actor Sylvester Stallone, a
friend of his, had called to
bring Johnson’s story to his
attention.
“His trials and tribulations
were great, his life complex
and controversial,” Trump Newgarden wins Indy
wrote from his Mar-a-Lago
club in Florida. “Others
have looked at this over Grand Prix of Alabama
the years, most thought it
would be done, but yes, I
am considering a Full Par-
don!” IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden holds up the
Johnson is a legendary fig-
ure in boxing and crossed trophy after winning the Honda Indy Grand Prix of
over into popular culture Alabama auto race at Barber Motorsports Park,
decades ago with biogra- Monday, April 23, 2018, in Birmingham, Ala.
phies, dramas and docu- Associated Press
mentaries following the
civil rights era. Page 19

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