CHICAGO (CBS) -- "King: A Life," the new biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was on virtually everyone's top 10 list of 2023 – including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Time ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to biographer Jonathan Eig about King a Life . "One of ... Jonathan Eig's new biography examines the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

King:A Life, the new biography by Jonathan Eig, provides a fresh perspective into the life of one of America's most important activists. From his upbringing in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward ...

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography 'King: A Life,' spoke on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s 'Book of the Day' podcast about Martin Luther King Jr., and noted that MLK didn’t have plans to become ...

Taylor Branch, author of "On Canaan's Edge", the final installment of his three-volume biography of Martin Luther King Jr., discusses the civil rights leaders life and legacy. Beginning in Selma ...

Earlier that year, Dr. Martin Luther King, a famous Negro preacher and hero to everyone I knew, had been in jail. I had never known anyone in jail, least of all a minister.

But King didn't say the words that appeared in an article by Alex Haley, says biographer Jonathan Eig. New biography of Martin Luther King Jr. undercuts a widely cited quote about Malcolm X | KPBS ...

In a deal that was more of a decade in the making, the library acquired The Call’s photography archive, which contains ...

Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother, was crucial to the civil rights movement. On MLK Day, we should celebrate her, too.

AP. FILE - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963.

Martin Luther King Jr. never said he thought Malcolm X "has done himself and our people a great disservice," a biographer says. The two civil rights leaders with opposing views on nonviolence met ...

April 3, 1968: Less than 24 hours before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “mountaintop” speech to a rally of striking ...