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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jonathan Eig worked as a reporter for various newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, before becoming a bestselling author. His 2017 biography of Muhammad Ali, titled Ali: A Life, won the ...

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 ...

New archival material and a narrowing window in which to speak to people who knew Martin Luther King, Jr. fueled the work, said the author. By Benjamin P. Russell Having written about Muhammad Ali, Al ...