Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an Aug. 24,1984 photograph, Alex Haley, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Roots," is pictured at the old Knoxville News ...

50 years after Alex Haley’s groundbreaking “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” landed on shelves, its legacy remains urgent. Sitting on my parents’ bookshelf is a copy of the novel “Roots: The ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously removed other books from ...

Grandma's Boy -- The Cook Who Writes -- People on the Way Up -- The Fearsome Black Demagogue -- Marked Man -- Before This Anger -- The American Griot -- The Black Family Bible -- Pop Triumph -- Roots ...

"Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" By Lucas L. Johnson II (Broadleaf Books, 221 pages, $25.99) Alex Haley's "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" was published in ...

On Monday, officials from Annapolis and West Africa will gather at the Alex Haley Memorial at Annapolis City Dock at 1 p.m. to mark the statue’s 25th anniversary. Erected in 1999 to commemorate Haley, ...

The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alex Haley, "Roots: The American Family Saga." (Photo credit: Getty Images) 50 years after Alex Haley's groundbreaking "Roots: The ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously removed other books from ...

50 years after Alex Haley’s groundbreaking “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” landed on shelves, its legacy remains urgent. Sitting on my parents’ bookshelf is a copy of the novel “Roots: The ...