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from the issue of January 13, 2005
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Free screening Jan. 13 of PBS boxing documentary
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Nebraska ETV and Emerging Pictures present a screening of a 100-minute version of a four-hour PBS series on boxer Jack Johnson at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Admission to the high definition screening of Ken Burns's new film is free and open to the public.
Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century, returns to the ring on Jan. 17 and 18 on PBS and Nebraska ETV.
Burns's provocative new documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, explores the life and times of the great, yet often overlooked, boxer who dominated opponents inside the ring and sparred with America over issues of race and freedom outside of it.
Learn more about the documentary at .
Unforgivable Blackness was directed by Ken Burns with music by Wynton Marsalis. The voice of Jack Johnson is provided by Samuel L. Jackson. Other voices in the film include, Billy Bob Thornton, Ed Harris, Courtney B. Vance, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Conway, Studs Terkel, Joe Morton, Eli Wallach, and Amy Madigan.
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