Journalist and author Jonathan Eig spent six years—the entire pandemic and then some—holed up in his Chicago laundry-room-slash-office writing King: A Life, a 688-page biography of Martin Luther King ...

Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his final days protesting the hazardous ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...

Breaking down the FBI's massive operation and the various leads. Thousands of FBI agents spent months hunting down every lead looking for Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin, but the final crack in the ...

Yolanda Renee King never met her grandfather, but she’s always felt a connection to MLK Jr. Jason Mowry/Getty ; Martin Mills/Getty Yolanda Renee King is following in her grandfather’s footsteps. The ...

The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were released Monday by the Trump administration. Before that, the more than ...