Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From preschool primers to Martin Luther King Jr.’s essential speeches, these books confirm his eternal relevance. January 15, 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 15-year-old granddaughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is collaborating on a picture book tribute to the late civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King. Yolanda ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- "King: A Life," the new biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was on virtually everyone's top 10 list of 2023 – including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Time ...

How John Lewis and Coretta Scott King embodied the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while each creating their own. From “Fighting With Love.”Credit...James E. Ransome Supported by By Abby ...

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 Luther King ...

It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois. My home for the summer was in a Black inner-city neighborhood on the West Side of ...

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 ...

Events from this week in Christian history include the first Mother’s Day church service, the burning of Martin Luther’s ...

January 15, 2024: Today marks 95 years since the birth of civil rights icon, globally-recognized leader and American hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As many of us celebrate his life, it isn’t ...