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In the fourth and final chapter of History’s admirable Roots remake, Chicken George at last was able to return to the States. But any sort of a happy ending was still a long ways off for Kunta Kinte’s ...

The story of Kunta Kinte’s abduction from Africa into slavery is being retold for a new generation. On Memorial Day, History Channel will premiere its remake of Roots, the landmark ABC miniseries that ...

Weather permitting, the 33rd Annual Kunta Kinte Festival is set to take place on Saturday at Annapolis City Dock and Susan Campbell Park. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Jan Lee, chair of ...

The original "Roots" showed audiences 'history, not from the colonizer's point of view...' Director Mario Van Peebles, on how the new series will carry the torch. In 1977, ABC aired the mini-series ...

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 26 (UPI) --British actor Malachi Kirby has nabbed the role of Kunta Kinte in A&E's upcoming Roots remake. The special event series will follow the story of Kinte and his family as ...

John Amos, the actor known for his role as the family patriarch on the hit sitcom “Good Times” and the adult Kunta Kinte in the famed original miniseries “Roots,” has died, according to a his longtime ...