21-04-2018 23:39 via 10tv.com

Trump considers posthumous pardon of boxer Jack Johnson after call from Stallone

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he's considering a posthumous pardon 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 Saturday 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 wrote
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