The Alabama city that produced five Hall of Famers celebrates its baseball heritage with new statues. The moment was made ...

Evanston and Chicago-area organizations are hosting events to bring Black communities together for Juneteenth on Thursday.

Communities across the Chicago area have planned an array of events to honor and celebrate the holiday Thursday. Parties, ...

The book concludes with King’s famous “Mountaintop Speech” in Memphis, the night before his assassination: “And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But … ...

O’Meara: The north star of this whole project, I had this quote from the biographer Jonathan Eig, who was the Pulitzer Prize winner of the Martin Luther King biography – taped it under my monitor.

For 61-year-old Jonathan Eig, age and the accompanying wisdom played a key role in the writing of his landmark biography of Martin Luther King, awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

Mr. Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” the winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Great waves of cruelty pound us. Government officials use the law to attack the weak and ...

ATLANTA — Any day now, thousands of previously classified documents related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are set to be released — shedding new light on his 1968 assassination. Or maybe ...

Donald Trump ordered the declassification of files related to Martin Luther King. The King family opposes this and wants to see the papers before they are released .

It was just 10 days ago — April 4 — that our country noted the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. ... A Life,” author Jonathan Eig tells King’s story, ...

This week, we commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most iconic figures in American history, known for his tireless fight against ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. sits on a couch and speaks on the telephone after encountering a white mob protesting against the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, in May 1961.