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CHICAGO — Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and fresh findings. Even some previous King biographers have called Eig’s work the new definitive narrative about the civil rights leader. In awarding the prize, the Pulitzer committee cited ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.

This month I pay personal tribute to the cloud of witnesses in the American Freedom Movement on whose shoulders I stand.

Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book “Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White,” died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Lane, Charles - ISBN 10: 1501286900 - ISBN 13: 9781501286902 - Brilliance Audio - 2015