Giving up has never been in Kunta Kinte’s blood, and it seems his daughter has taken on his fighting spirit in Part 2 of Roots. It’s been 10 years since we last saw Kunta, and in that time he was ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Today we move on to last night’s episode 2. (Get ready for spoilers.) The episode ...

The 34th annual The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival was held Saturday in the grounds of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Robin Monroe and her grandson Noah Maura, 4, dance to the music ...

A man named Kunta Kinte is facing attempted murder charges after police say he opened fire on three women during a Swan Avenue confrontation that nearly turned deadly. Kunta Kinte Taylor and a hail of ...

'Roots: The Saga of an American Family.' (NOLA.com ) In an opening scene of John Singleton's 1991 classic film "Boyz n the Hood," a young Doughboy can't believe Furious Styles is going to make his ...

Roots (9 p.m., A&E, Lifetime and History Channels) – This 8-hour miniseries – a remake of the 1977 series, based on the Alex Haley novel – begins in Gambia in 1750 as Omoro Kinte and his wife, Binta, ...

But one of the most touching tributes of all came from LeVar Burton, Amos’ co-star in the hit 1977 mini-series “Roots.” Burton played a young Kunta Kinte, the son of an African warrior who is captured ...

Watching [The Root’s Editor-in-Chief] Henry Louis Gates Jr. delve into the ancestry of African Americans on PBS recently got me thinking about Alex Haley’s Roots, the book that started it all. Both ...

With a splendid cast both well- and little-known, History’s new version of “Roots,” which premieres Monday night, is the very model of a modern major miniseries. Billed as a “re-imagining,” it follows ...

A group takes a selfie at the event. The 32nd annual Kunta Kinte Festival, a celebration of the perseverance, education, and cultural heritage of Africans, African Americans, and Caribbean people of ...