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 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 ...

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 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 ...

In October 1967, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., received an urgent telegram from two Black would-be politicians, A.W. Willis and Rev. James Lawson, desperately asking for help mobilizing Black voters to ...

“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 ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Jan. 12, 2024. Find that audio here. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew as a college student that he was going to "kill Jim Crow." We learn about King in ...

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 ...

Not long ago, a Tennessee state representative named Justin J. Pearson delivered a familiar-sounding speech at a meeting of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners. Pearson had recently taken part in ...

SIX MONTHS after Florida’s board of education banned “critical race theory” (CRT)—in essence, the study of structural racism—from its classrooms, Ron DeSantis, the governor, introduced legislation ...