The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were ...

The National Archives released over 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The release follows a 2025 executive order by then-President Trump mandating the ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has released more than 200,000 documents related to the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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 ...

The release of National Archives documents is the latest attempt to define what the Civil Rights icon believed, and what that ...

One audio file was included in the trove and featured parts of audio from a law enforcement interview with a sibling of James ...

Martin Luther King Jr. stands in front of a bus on December 26, 1956, after the successful conclusion of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which integrated the city’s public transit.© Getty Images ...

Share full article Jonathan Eig, the author of “King: A Life,” a recent biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Doug McGoldrick By Jennifer Schuessler March 19, 2024 ...

July 1974 -- Martin Luther King Sr. grieves during the funeral service of his wife, Alberta Williams King. Mrs. King, 69, was shot to death by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault as she played the ...

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 ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died Monday after battling prostate cancer. The King Center in Atlanta, which Dexter ...