During a conference in 1969, two librarians, Glyndon Flynt Greer and Mabel McKissick, happened to meet at the booth of publisher John Carroll. The trio observed that no African-American author or ...

A year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the publishing company Holt, Rinehart and Winston released Coretta Scott King’s My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. A senior editor at HRW, ...

Coretta Scott King was more than the wife and widow of Martin Luther King Jr. She was an architect of justice and a leader in her own right. A classically trained singer turned activist, she was as ...

The wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out in her posthumous memoir. — -- Coretta Scott King revealed for the first time intimate stories of her life with the legendary civil rights ...

Crowds of mourners have paid tribute to Coretta Scott King at the Georgia State House in Atlanta. The widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, a powerful civil rights activist in her own right, will be ...

On a prestige level, the Youth Media Awards are the Oscars of children’s literature. Their origins date back to 1922—a full seven years before the first Academy Awards. That’s when the American ...

Coretta Scott King died in 2006 at the age of 78 from complications with ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer for women. Coretta Scott King was more than the wife and widow of Martin ...