DreamWorks has acquired the life rights to Martin Luther King Jr. and is bringing a biopic on the slain civil rights leader to the bigscreen. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones will ...

Jonathan Eig worked as a reporter for various newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, before becoming a bestselling author. His 2017 biography of Muhammad Ali, titled Ali: A Life, won the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to biographer Jonathan Eig about King a Life. "One of the interesting things about King is that he's a protest leader who really does not like conflict," Eig says. The life ...

It's a biting piece of criticism aimed at Malcolm X that for decades was attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. But a new biography of King suggests history books about these two men may need to be ...

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.” By Jennifer Schuessler Jonathan ...

Early in the 20-teens, Jonathan Eig was researching his biography of Muhammad Ali and learned about the surprising friendship between Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. In some ways the two Black ...

Today we celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King displayed a deep appreciation for jazz and understood its symbolic role in the struggle for civil rights. In honor of his ...

BERLIN — Joseph Fiennes has been tapped to play Protestant reformer Martin Luther in a project to be shot in Germany by Berlin-based NFP Teleart. The film, which also will star Peter Ustinov, Bruno ...

The life of Martin Luther King is one of the most famous in American history. But in that life, one thing is easy to overlook - how young he was. King became a nationally known civil rights leader in ...