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 ...

The Universal Pictures film will be based on the Jonathan Eig biography 'King: A Life,' which came out earlier this year Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Bettmann Archive/Getty; Kevork Djansezian/NBC via ...

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 ...

Steven Spielberg is executive producing the feature, based on Jonathan Eig's biography. By Aaron Couch Film Editor Chris Rock is gearing up to examine the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The actor and ...

NEW YORK -- Two retired NYPD officers were honored Saturday for helping to catch a woman police say tried to burn down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s childhood home. The house is a federal landmark in ...

The grand opening in Memorial Church included a panel highlighting King’s legacy as a scholar, activist and human being. The ...