How the daughter of boxing legend Joe Louis is carrying on his legacy in Detroit The Latest: 14 Dead As Tornado Outbreak Slams Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and Mississippi Republicans unveil bill ...

The late heavyweight champion is survived by 11 of his 12 children. Learn all about them and their family here.

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936. Each man was fighting for a shot at the world heavyweight boxing championship.

In 1935, Joe Louis was ready for the big time -- New York City. But Louis's cynical trainer, Chappie Blackburn, suspected that a black boxer with ... buy milk for poor children.

Louis finished his career ... and remarried. The children slept three to a bed in Alabama before the family moved to Detroit in the twenties. Joe was learning cabinetmaking in a vocational school ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A project like the Joe Louis Greenway has been years in the making, and as work continues to connect Detroit with three other cities, organizers ...