In hallowing Martin Luther King Jr., we have hollowed him. We have replaced his radical vision for justice with a romantic image of a man who stands for little more than love and peace. For the past seven years, Jonathan Eig has traveled across the country, meeting the people who knew King personally, recording their stories and learning about the real MLK — the complicated one, the flawed one, the radical one, the one we really need in today’s bitter divided world.

Jonathan Eig is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of King: A Life. He's the author of six books, four of them New York Times best sellers. The New York Times hailed King as the "definitive" biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

For those unable to attend in person, the lecture will be live streamed.