He was given a military burial in Arlington National Cemetery at the request of President Ronald Reagan. In death, like in life, Joe Louis was a hero.

When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch ... The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift. By the early twentieth century, a large number of Southern ...

Twenty years after Johnson lost the heavyweight title to Jess Willard, a talented young boxer from Detroit named Joe Louis began to rise up the ranks of black fighters. In the first 11 months of ...

A Detroit sculptor has been tapped to create a statue depicting iconic boxer Joe Louis and his life outside of the ring that will be installed on a 27-mile greenway named after him that's now ...