Roots: The Saga of an American Family was a cultural sensation when it was published in 1976. African American author Alex Haley claimed to have traced his family history back through seven ...

Anyone who saw the original will recognise the storylines – Kunta Kinte's whipping, his daughter Kizzy's rape, her son Chicken George's slow journey to freedom – but there's a directness and ...

who is a fan of the actor’s central role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries “Roots” with her daughter Michelle, who knows and loves Burton as Geordi La Forge in “Star Trek ...

(Update, 12:30 p.m. PT, October 2: TMZ later reported that John Amos died of congestive heart failure, and daughter Shannon ... He played the adult Kunta Kinte (with LeVar Burton playing the ...