In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history. INSKEEP: We know that cadence, the drawn-out words precisely pronounced, the pauses between each phrase.

Martin Luther King Jr. never said he thought Malcolm X "has done himself and our people a great disservice," a biographer says. The two civil rights leaders with opposing views on nonviolence met ...

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography 'King: A Life,' spoke on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s 'Book of the Day' podcast about Martin Luther King Jr., and noted that MLK didn’t have plans to become ...

King:A Life, the new biography by Jonathan Eig, provides a fresh perspective into the life of one of America's most important activists. From his upbringing in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward ...

In December 1964, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. flew to Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. At 35, he was the youngest person and only the second Black American ever to receive the award ...

Such achievements surely would cheer Dr. King, ... that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has entered the American pantheon for what he achieved in just 13 years on the public stage.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is not celebrated as a typical holiday with a day off from work or school, ... Nisa Anastasia Primus and Tylyn Duncan were honored for their accomplishments.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before some 25,000 Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marchers outside the Alabama state capitol building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery.

Finally today, it is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He would have been 93 years old. And while the holiday is officially celebrated on Monday, we didn't want to leave you today without letting ...

His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. ... Martin Luther King Jr. leaving the office of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in December 1964.