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Actor Tony Todd (right) will play boxer Jack Johnson in the play &quot;Ghost in the House: The Life and Times of Jack Johnson,” premiering in Schoenberg Hall Friday. Playing Johnson allowed Todd to reflect on both the athlete&#039;s life and the mirroring of racial tension in America then and now. Johnson learned how to fight in bare-knuckle street fights at nine years old, becoming the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)

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Introducing first in the black corner, weighing in at 205 pounds, hailing from Galveston, Texas – they call him the Galveston Giant – it’s Jack Johnson.

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IN THE NEWS:

Tony Todd to play Jack Johnson in “Ghost in the House”

By William Thorne

Oct. 8, 2015 4:08 a.m.