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Pulitzer goes to Martin Luther King Jr. biographer
The Columbian· 3 days agoChicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King Jr., a bestseller...
Biographer offers an unvarnished look at pre-eminent civil rights icon
Republican-American· 12 hours agoAs he watched Black citizens declare war on segregation during the bus boycott in Montgomery,...
Newtown sidewalks highest priority for Sarasota improvement project using federal funds
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoNewtown, Sarasota’s historically Black neighborhood recently listed on the National Register of...
Students inspired after Martin Luther King Jr. Commission ‘dream keepers’ Tour in D.C,
FOX 16 Little Rock· 4 days agoThe Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission is rounding out its anti-bullying campaign in...
Ohio has made felony charges, arrests 'consequences' of peaceful protest
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 29 minutes agoJudson L. Jeffries is a professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Compares His Anti-Vax Stance to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Activism
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAndrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesIndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy,...
The Radically Different Lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis
The New York Sun· 5 days agoJohn Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and...
DC police assist Street Smart campaign by writing tickets to drivers in hopes of curbing pedestrian...
WDVM via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoWASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Dozens of drivers in the District headed home with tickets on Monday...
Seeing MLK's Legacy at the Gaza Solidarity Protests
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA 1963 photo of Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the thousands of people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington Credit - The...
Yakima turns out for pool groundbreaking at MLK park
Yakima Herald-Republic· 5 days agoBehind Martin Luther King Jr. Park in East Yakima sits a dirt lot, cleared of grass and concrete courts and full of fine dust and hulking construction...