The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.” By Jennifer Schuessler Jonathan ...

January 15, 2024: Today marks 95 years since the birth of civil rights icon, globally-recognized leader and American hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As many of us celebrate his life, it isn’t ...

Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and ...

Journalist and author Jonathan Eig spent six years—the entire pandemic and then some—holed up in his Chicago laundry-room-slash-office writing King: A Life, a 688-page biography of Martin Luther King ...

Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different ...

Yolanda Renee King delivers a stirring tribute to her grandparents that speaks to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future. The granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Inspired by her family’s legacy of national civil rights advocacy, Yolanda Renee King is leading a new generation of modern activists. At 15 years old, the only granddaughter of ...

Each year Americans across the country take time to recognize and honor the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his birth month of January. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black ...

King III explores his complicated relationship with his father's legend in 'What Is My Legacy?: Realizing a New Dream of Connection, Love and Fulfillment' In 2022, Martin Luther King III, the son of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his final days protesting the hazardous ...

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