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Jonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig is the author of Ali: A Life and King: A Life, the latter of which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography.

I Didn’t Ask Jesse Jackson for His Autograph. But I Got One Anyway.

I met the late civil-rights activist five times over the past decade, and I never felt like he was anything but himself. I mean that as the highest form…

February 18, 2026

Things Worth Remembering: MLK’s Final Act of Faith

‘Somewhere I read of freedom,’ said Martin Luther King Jr. in the last speech of his life. Most of us today don’t need to read of our rights to know…

January 18, 2026

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