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 ...
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 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 scope and ...
The pain, the deep spiritual faith and the radicalness of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: noted author Jonathan Eig laid it all out for the more than 100 people who came to Kenilworth Union Church on Oct ...
In 2024, the federal holiday intended to celebrate the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. happened to fall on his actual birthday. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 15, 1929, King dedicated his life ...
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2024, when the most famous American Civil Rights leader in history would have turned 95, he would surely have celebrated the progress that has been ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so famous that it often eclipses his other speeches. King's greatest contribution ...
JANUARY 15TH. A LIFE SO IMPACTFUL. THE CITY OF ORLANDO WILL SPEND ROUGHLY TWO WEEKS HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR, THE FESTIVITIES STARTED TONIGHT WITH AN EVENT ...
The lofty fundamentals of the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution established a glowing standard: All people—white, black, red, yellow and purple—had been endowed with certain inalienable rights, ...