Alex Haley's reputation in the literary world rests upon his much-acclaimed historical novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). Haley's tracing of his African-American ancestry back to a tiny village in Gambia, West Africa, spawned one of...

Alex Haley's reputation in the literary world rests upon his much-acclaimed historical novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). Haley's tracing of his Afro-American ancestry back to a tiny village in Gambia, West Africa, spawned one of the...

Alex Haley (1921-1992) is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977 almost two million hardcover copies of the book had been sold and 130 million people had seen all or part of the eight-episode television...

In 1976, author Alex Haley did something no black person had been able to do before: he got Americans to view history from a black perspective. The vehicle he used was Roots: The Saga of an American Family, his 688-page fictional interpretation of the...

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the latter of which he wrote in collaboration...

"EARLY IN the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte." And thus began the 1974 epic "Roots," a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about...

Author completes Alex Haley project 'The Black Rose' details the life of early black female entrepreneur By BERNARD MCGHEE Associated Press Saturday, November 18, 2000 Longview, Wash. -- Tananarive Due has the last 10 years of Alex Haley's life...

Maryland lawmakers approved an apology Monday for the state's role in the slave trade, expressing "profound regret" that it once "trafficked in human flesh."Maryland follows Virginia in issuing a formal apology.The vote in the House of Delegates makes the apology official, because a resolution doesn't...

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2007. There are 342 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 23, 1968, North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew was released...

For long we have been fighting the fiction that we maintained nothing of what we brought over from Africa, that we created nothing of cultural value in the South; fighting the belief that because we were not accorded life by the image-makers, that we, in fact, did not exist. We have been fighting to establish that the lives of our fore-parents stood for something other than what was portrayed in the U.S. media. Roots, because it is based on the result of painstaking scholarship and is therefore accurate in ...