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A life of Muhammad Ali led the author to his new book, then a prize-winning predecessor played guide and adviser

Local historians and Black leaders are rethinking their opinions on Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Alex Haley following a biographer's recent discovery.

In high school, if you asked me what the best book I’d ever read was, I probably would have said “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Alex Haley.

A recent debunking of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous criticism of Malcolm X offers an opportunity to consider the mission they shared.

It’s not the Deep State, just good old American machine politics

As Eig details, fame made Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts often as much of a curse as a blessing. The biography forces readers to view King as more than a martyr, icon, or saint — to see him for who he was, instead of who people thought he was, or wanted him to be.

Writer Jonathan Eig’s new biography of Martin Luther King Junior draws on thousands of pages of new documents and audio recordings to paint an intimate portrait of the civil rights leader. Read more.

At the age of 22, Martin Luther King told a girlfriend that he would demolish segregation in America. “I’m going to kill Jim Crow,” he boasted. Supremely confid

NONFICTION: A flaws-and-all examination of Martin Luther King Jr.s critique of inequality and war. "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (688 pages, $35) ——— As he

A critical quote about Malcolm X that has been attributed to King has been taught for decades. But King didn't say the words that appeared in an article by Alex Haley, says biographer Jonathan Eig.