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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraces his wife Coretta and children, Marty and Yoki after he is freed from jail under a $2,000 appeal bond at the airport in Chamblee, Georgia.

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography 'King: A Life,' spoke on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s 'Book of the Day' podcast about Martin Luther King Jr., and noted that MLK didn’t have plans to become ...

Billed as the first major biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in decades, Eig’s book draws on recently declassified government records and other new sources to take a panoramic yet ...

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 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew as a college student that he was going to "kill Jim Crow." We learn about King in a new biography that includes some new revelations about the man.

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 ...

But King didn't say the words that appeared in an article by Alex Haley, says biographer Jonathan Eig. New biography of Martin Luther King Jr. undercuts a widely cited quote about Malcolm X | KPBS ...