Mahershala Ali to play Jack Johnson, world’s first black Heavyweight boxing champion — Newsizz

[ad_1] Two-time Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali will be essaying the role of American boxing legend Jack Johnson in an upcoming limited series from HBO. Titled “Unruly”, the series is based on Ken Burns’ PBS documentary “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson“ and Geoffrey C. Ward’s companion book, reported Deadline. The project, which […]

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