Joe was learning cabinetmaking in a vocational ... the murdered leader of the militant Black Muslims. Exactly one year later, Louis exacted his revenge on Schmeling. The fight was for more than ...

When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch ... had a record-breaking run and featured work by Eubie Black and Noble Sissle. Two years later the pair created "Chocolate Dandies ...

He broke the record at 37 and it stood until George Foreman memorably broke the record at 45 years old ... Jersey Joe and Louis met six months later at Yankee Stadium, but the champion was ...

The Joe Louis Story The film, acted out by a predominantly colored cast headed by Coley Wallace (as the champ), rates high on sincerity, is alternately touching, understanding and heartpoundingly ...

The epicentre of it all for the past 38 years has been Joe Louis Arena. And at the end of the year it will close for good. I went to Detroit in March expecting to learn what the arena meant to the ...

Joe Louis, in the far right corner ... then the leader of the militant Black Muslims. Exactly one year later, Louis exacted his revenge on Schmeling. The fight was for more than the heavyweight ...