Roots follows Kunta Kinte and his family, from their origins in Gambia ... Roots may contain inconsistencies with his exact lineage. The director of Boston University's African American studies ...

Having first heard of Kunta Kinte from family legend, Haley made heavy use ... "To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within Roots is from either my African or ...

My uncle, Alex Haley, wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” the story of Kunta Kinte ... work and respect our own lineage.

Kunta Kinte still haunts us ... Henry merged his IT background with his decades-long interest in genealogy and launched Family Pearl in 2013. In addition to traditional genealogical research ...

Mr. Haley, who died in February, is best-known for his book “Roots,” which chronicled the search for his own family history. Mr. Haley traced his ancestry to Kunta Kinte, an African who ...

Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family traced his family lineage back to Kunta Kinte, an African tribesman captured in the Gambia and sold into slavery in America.

The story of Kunta Kinte’s abduction ... The Saga of an American Family, spans multiple centuries, tracing author Alex Haley’s genealogy back to 1750s West Africa. The eight-hour remake ...

The TV series led to a new interest in genealogy ... based on Haley’s own family history), from the year 1750 to about 1861, all of whom descended from Kunta Kinte (which was the first major ...

Haley’s story followed the life of the mostly fictional Kunta Kinte from his capture in ... sparking an explosion of interest in ancestry and family discovery. This interest was particularly ...

As hundreds gathered downtown Saturday to remember Kunta Kinte – the man ... said she also asked every family member she could contact what they knew about their genealogy.

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 ...

The toughest role to cast in the hit miniseries “Roots” was the central character of Kunta Kinte. The whole series depended on finding a young, fit actor who could credibly portray a man ...