Darryl C. Murphy, host of The Common, sat down for a conversation with historian David Greenberg about “John Lewis: A Life,” the first definitive biography of the Civil Rights icon who would become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time in 40 years, a comprehensive new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. takes another look at a man etched into ...

A biography of late civil rights pioneer and former Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), which will draw upon hundreds of interviews and classified documents and files, is in the works. Publishing company Simon & ...

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, along with Martin Luther King Jr., become the personification of nonviolence ...

JOHN LEWIS: A Life. By David Greenberg. Simon & Schuster. 704 pages. $35. In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic congressman reacted after Republicans scored a ...

ATLANTA — A new biography of John Lewis promises a “comprehensive, authoritative” look back at the life of the Civil Rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia’s 5th District in the ...

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “John Lewis: A Life” by David Greenberg. (Simon & Schuster via AP) In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...