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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/CNS file) Martin Luther King Jr. once characterized the times in which he lived as “life’s restless sea.” His own turbulent ...

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 ...

As noted by the eminent novelist, James McBride, in "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store": "light is only possible through the dialogue between cultures[.]" This theme runs throughout Jonathan Eig's new ...

He picked her up for their first date in his green Chevy. She wore a light-blue suit under a long black coat. It was a rainy day in Boston, 1952. The first thing Coretta Scott noticed about Martin ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. recalled falling to his knees and weeping during his visit to a divided Jerusalem in 1959. “It was on a beautiful afternoon a few weeks ago that we journeyed from our ...