Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the late civil rights leader on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s ...

He never suggested that his dream of a discrimination-free society should make us blind to the persistence of racism.

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...

Federal holiday Martin Luther King Jr Day and Inauguration Day has overlapped for the third time in the long history of the ...

Jonathan Eig, who won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, “King: A Life,” said he has probably read about 90% of the available government files related to King, including a trounce of files ...

The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black ...

Originally released on home video, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Historical Perspective follows a more traditional approach ...

Monday, Jan. 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a celebration and honoring of the work done by the famed civil rights leader.

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King ... Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year in ... but Tennessee authorities refused to reopen the case, according to biography.com and Stanford. The Lorraine Motel is located in ...