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Feb 11, 2016 · Alex Haley. (Credit: Fred Mott/Getty Images) Born in 1921 and raised in Ithaca, New York, and Henning, Tennessee, Haley was the son of a homemaker mother and an academic father who taught at ...
Sep 11, 2012 · [Roots-Miniseries_l[1]] On this day 35 years ago, little did Alex Haley know that his groundbreaking dramatic miniseries, "Roots," which traced his family's roots, would garner nine Grammy Awards ...
May 30, 2016 · Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, Amazon Freevee. The classic story of "Roots" is retold in this miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel. The show paints a portrait of American slavery through the journey of a family that has a will to survive through many hardships. Malachi Kirby stars as Kunta Kinte, a proud and educated young man who ...
Aug 30, 2011 · Roots 30th Anniversary Special Edition (Repackage/Viva) Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s.
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Jun 2, 2016 · Fact, fiction and tangled "Roots": How a family history that wasn't entirely true broke through America's biggest lies From Alex Haley's book to a culture-shaping miniseries, and now an action ...
Jan 19, 2012 · Back in '77, there was no HBO, Hulu or iTunes. When it came to your television-watching possibilities, you were pretty much a captive of network TV. (And, perhaps, on a good night, PBS.) But even ...
Kunta Kinte ( / ˈkuːntɑː ˈkɪnteɪ / KOON-tah KIN-tay; c. 1750 – c. 1822) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822.
