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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American writer and author Alex Haley (1921 - 1992), UK, 12th April 1977. (Photo by Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By the early 1960s, Alex Haley had ...

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, ...

*A Tennessee school district has pulled one of American literature’s most significant works from its shelves. Knox County Schools confirmed that Alex Haley’s “Roots” has been banned, joining six other ...

The landmark 1976 novel joins dozens of books by Black authors facing increased scrutiny and removal in schools nationwide. A Tennessee school district has banned "Roots," the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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 ...