Malachi Kirby and LeVar Burton stand side by side in the first photo released from the new miniseries remake of “Roots.” Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 book of the same name, the classic “Roots” follows ...

It’s a career-making performance for Kirby, the 26-year-old Brit who describes filming the miniseries as a spiritual experience. “For most of the stuff, I didn’t know how to prepare, so I prayed. I ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK — LeVar Burton was only a sophomore at the University of Southern California when he was cast as Roots' enslaved hero Kunta Kinte. Arriving on the series' Savannah, Ga., set in spring 1976, ...

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Burton and Kirby retraced their own roots to learn the ancestral origins of their DNA, and the results were surprising (watch the video above). "75-percent of our DNA -- Malachi's and mine -- shows up ...

LeVar Burton, who played the part of the young Kunta Kinte in the groundbreaking Seventies mini-series Roots, says it is the right time for a re-make of a show dealing with slavery. Burton said he had ...

Malachi Kirby says it was literally a spiritual journey to take on the iconic role of Gambian warrior Kunta Kinte in the History Channel's daring remake of the 1977 mini-series, Roots. “On the set, I ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism. But the island where he and tens of thousands ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Everything that happens in this country [the US] and in this culture can be traced back to the racial divide and the enslavement of ...