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Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, Bernice King, entered the debate between NFL quarterback and ex-ESPN host Robert Griffin ...
It's a biting piece of criticism aimed at Malcolm X that for decades was attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. But a new biography of King suggests history books about these two men may need to be ...
A major new bio of Martin Luther King Jr. balances saint and sinner Jonathan Eig’s ‘King: A Life’ is deeply, freshly reported and moves with the narrative energy of a thriller ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to biographer Jonathan Eig about King a Life. "One of the interesting things about King is that he's a protest leader who really does not like conflict," Eig says.
Martin Luther King Jr. Was a 'Protest Leader Who Really Does Not Like Conflict,' Says Biographer Jonathan Eig, who wrote the acclaimed biography, ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the civil rights ...
On Friday, July 11, Macmillan imprint Flatiron Books announced a new biography about the civil rights leader. A Dream ...
Martin Luther King Jr. 'Knew That His Own Government Was Out to Destroy Him.' Here's What Helped Him Persevere Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the late civil ...
In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a ...
Jonathan Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length ...
Kamala Harris is facing accusations of plagiarism after passages of a book she wrote in 2009 were discovered to closely resemble an interview once given by Martin Luther King Jr. Several passages ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., VISITS TO CLEVELAND, which occurred frequently during his career as a civil-rights leader in the 1960s, raised funds for organizations such as the Southern Christian ...
President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.