The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Marsalis and Ken Burns also worked together on Burns's 2000 PBS documentary Jazz, a 10-part series that explored the history of Jazz music, on which Marsalis was ...

"I've been the Singing Cowboy of Rawhide Ranch for years now," says Cowboy Jack Johnson ... notes." Johnson formed another "re-creation" called "Band in Black," featuring the music of Johnny ...

Despite the lack of prize money, Johnson's victory in the ring had impressed Jack Curley, the young assistant to boxing promoter P.J. "Paddy" Carroll. Curley and Carroll arranged for Johnson to ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...