Seventy-seven years ago this month, a 19-year-old Black student graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He was an “ordinary student,” as one friend described ...

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the late civil rights leader on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

In this new age of artificial intelligence, social media and news that is no longer fact-checked for its veracity, there’s something to be said about sitting quietly with a good book. As the nation ...

PITTSFIELD — Sorting through the stacks of worn children’s books kept Karen Vogel’s hands busy Monday morning, as past and future weighed heavily on her mind. "It's important to be part of the ...

Eig's most recent book, "King: A Life," recently won a Pulitzer Prize and explores the complexities of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. Eig's research for his books relies heavily on primary sources, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — In December 1958, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowd of 4,000 in Indianapolis. An Indianapolis Recorder story pointed out that it was three months after he was ...

One of the facts about Martin Luther King Jr. that most people are unaware of: His birth certificate reads Michael King, an ode to his father, a former pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

The Trump administration on Monday released a massive trove of documents related to the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as part of an effort “to deliver complete transparency” into ...