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 ...

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 ...

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history. INSKEEP: We know that cadence, the drawn-out words precisely pronounced, the pauses between each phrase.

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 ...

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 ...

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" in which he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on the Mall in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. By Bo Emerson May 10, 2023 ...

The first major biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in roughly forty years is out. Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life" has important new revelations about the civil rights leader and what he dealt ...

Jonathan Eig’s new biography, 'King: A Life,' is the first major biography of Martin Luther King Jr. in decades and will take its place among the foremost of the many treatments of King.

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 ...

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 ...

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.