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Pulitzer 2024 winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times

Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life, while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Gaza war

The Guardian - US · May 6, 2024

5 MLK speeches you should know. Spoiler: 'I Have a Dream' isn't on the list

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil Rights Movement.

WEKU · Feb 7, 2024

Missing the point of the MLK holiday

We now "treat it like a day to celebrate King and we ignore the fact that all these other things are going on"

Salon · Jan 15, 2024

Bibliotecas del centro de Chicago y suburbios reciben amenazas de bomba

Los usuarios de la biblioteca no sabían que había una amenaza activa.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

Stand up for free speech in the face of threats to bomb libraries and ban books

The Harold Washington Library and several suburban libraries received anonymous threats on Tuesday, the same day Sen. Dick Durbin held hearings in Washington on book bans.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

Printers Row Lit Fest opens portal into Chicago’s literary world

The free two-day event will have over 100 booksellers, and more than 100,000 visitors are expected. It will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2023

MLK's dream for America is one of the stars of the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington

The last part of the speech took less time to deliver than it takes to boil an egg, but “I Have A Dream” is one of American history’s most famous orations and most inspiring

The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2023

Before he became an American icon, Lou Gehrig came of age in Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn. — The 10-word telegram sizzled through the Western Union wires from Hartford to Manhattan and must have dropped in like a hand grenade in the Yankees’ offices on 42nd Street.

Tribune News Service · Jul 4, 2023

Jonathan Eig wrote ‘King: A Life’ about Martin Luther King Jr. — the man this time, instead of the myth

CHICAGO -- The air-conditioned tour bus with tinted windows stopped outside Bright Star Baptist Church in Bronzeville and out came several dozen congregants from the Anshe Emet Synagogue of Lakeview. They moved slowly up the sidewalk and concrete steps of the church. Before anyone reached the doors, welcomes erupted, like…

Chicago Tribune · Jun 14, 2023

Martin Luther King, founding father: Jonathan Eig on his epic new biography

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

The Guardian - US · May 21, 2023