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 neighborhood ...

The life of Martin Luther King is one of the most famous in American history. But in that life, one thing is easy to overlook - how young he was. King became a nationally known civil rights leader in ...

In December 1964, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. flew to Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. At 35, he was the youngest person and only the second Black American ever to receive the award, which ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. It's a biting piece of criticism aimed ...

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 with ...

“It was hugely intimidating,” Eig says in a video interview from his home in Chicago. “Every biography is intimidating, because you’re taking someone’s life in your hands. But King was the most ...

Early in the 20-teens, Jonathan Eig was researching his biography of Muhammad Ali and learned about the surprising friendship between Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. In some ways the two Black ...

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 ...

Author Jonathan Eig also claims women activists weren’t given enough credit. Early in the 20-teens, Jonathan Eig was researching his biography of Muhammad Ali and learned about the surprising ...