Alex Haley was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the novel, Roots, which was based on his family's history of ...

As the nation pauses to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., I felt the need to commemorate some of our own ...

The report comes during Banned Books Week, which first began in 1982 to raise awareness about the importance of free and ...

The minister’s specificity on Nigerian history helpfully dispels contending notions of African, West African or general world history. Although the minister outlined “disconnection from our history” ...

“It was designed to do Alex Haley in a test tube,” Gates says with a smile, referring to Roots, Haley’s smash-hit 1977 miniseries about Black slavery, which Gates was obsessed with.

Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and ...

Such advances have inspired new waves of amateur and professional researchers, in the way that author Alex Haley’s 1976 novel “Roots” sparked an interest in documenting Black American ...

Alex Haley, the author of "Roots," wrote the foreword. A 25th anniversary edition was printed in 2009. Haley, in his introduction of Moutoussamy-Ashe's photography book, noted how the ...

ABC's "Modern Family" ended in 2020 after 11 seasons. The cast, including Sofia Vergara and Ty Burrell, has changed since the ...

One facet of his deep knowledge of history was his involvement in genealogy – his own, yes, but also in how the surge of interest in family history that resulted from Alex Haley’s Roots led to ...