"What my father did was enable white America to think of him as an American, not as a black," said his son, Joe Louis Jr. "By winning, he became white America's first black hero." Louis was ...

Walcott only held the titles for a short time – but Big Fight Weekend is taking you back to before that historic night, when he challenged Joe Louis and lost in a hugely controversial fight on ...

The Joe Louis Story The Joe Louis Story is a dramatic recap of the personal and ring history of the respected Negro American fighter. The film, acted out by a predominantly colored cast headed by ...

The New York Daily News, June 23, 1938. When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch, the nation celebrated -- and one of the biggest parties was in Harlem. In the famous New York ...

Spotlight will look at the future of Detroit's 30-mile Joe Louis Greenway Partnership and Southwest Detroit's newest ...

June 25: The young phenomenon Joe Louis debuts in New York, knocking out Primo Carnera in six rounds at Yankee Stadium. After the fight, 20,000 people assemble at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom to celebrate.

On September 21, 1981, at 24 years of age, Duster made history by becoming the first black fireman in the city of Florence, but it wasn’t easy.

The Joe Louis Greenway construction received another batch of funding, this time in Highland Park and Detroit The $10 million grant will pay for the greenway between Woodward Avenue and Dequindre ...

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, floored Max Schmeling three times and won their much-publicized June 22, 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium in a first-round knockout. In a time when his people ...