The US attorney in Washington, DC, arguing the public needs to know the “truth” about the assassination of Martin Luther King ...
Eig discovered that Alex Haley fabricated quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. about Malcolm X in a Playboy interview. The ...
Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte ...
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 Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t ...
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 ...