12/4- Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King, in Conversation with Randall Kennedy

November 20, 2023 Amanda Rajnauth

Please join on Monday, December 4, when the Leon Levy Center for Biography presents:

Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King

in conversation with Randall Kennedy

Monday, December 4, 6:30 pm

The Kelly Skylight Room, the Graduate Center, CUNY

365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.

Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of Ali: A Life, winner of a 2018 PEN America Literary Award and a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize. He also served as a senior consulting producer for the PBS series Muhammad Ali. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, won the Casey Award. Eig’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have been listed among the best of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

Randall Kennedy attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Balliol College, Oxford, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to judge J. Skelly Wright and to Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, the bar of the United States Supreme Court, the American Law Institute, the American Philosophical Association, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book is Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History and Culture.

Presented with Public Programs

Register for this in-person event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/king-a-life-tickets-708640371427

Register for the Zoom Livestream here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AubmIxYWSB2qYVScSADjGw#/registration

NB: this event will be recorded and posted on the Leon Levy Center Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcOQfzxqQDGPLE38YAjIxQw/videos