Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame often chooses the wrong bands to be inducted, but this left-out band deserves to get in.

Jonathan Eig, speaking Thursday at the National Writers Series, won a Pulitzer for 'King: A Life.' Now, comes a look at ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a hero, but he was not a saint or a symbol. So writes Jonathan Eig, one of the country’s most ...

They wound up where they usually did, the White Castle on Dequindre Road, laughing, late, just on the safe side of rowdy, and ...

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The acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer will give a talk as part of the Boxser Diversity Initiative's Building ...

I’m thinking of this in the wake of Roberta Flack’s death. The brilliant vocalist’s life story has been much in the news of ...

We recently made the case for Poly Styrene, founder and lead singer of the early punk band X-Ray Spex, being inducted into ...

The man who stood in front of the Dolls, often in heavy makeup and with various parts of his torso unclothed, was David ...

There have always been odd pairings in rock and roll. Artists who simply seemed incongruous, but still found common ground – ...

Each year, when the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF) announces a new slate of nominees for induction, the internet comes ...