The Red Wings just saw their 25-year playoff streak snapped, but it was still apparent in the final days of Joe Louis why it earned the moniker “the largest community rink in North America.” ...

The following is a feature that originally ran in the Valley Living, a quarterly magazine of the Valley Times-News. Riding ...

"There was never a Harlem like the Harlem of last night. Take a dozen Christmases ... of the most famous athlete of the day and a Harlem favorite, Joe Louis.

"Even white folks on the job that would say nigger 50 times a day, that would ... up when they talked about Joe," says civil rights activist Dick Gregory about Joe Louis on ESPN Classic's ...