"Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" By Lucas L. Johnson II (Broadleaf Books, 221 pages, $25.99) ...

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 ...

George Korda writes: Tennessee lawmakers should stop micromanaging school libraries and let local boards handle book ...

A sculpture of Haley stands in Morningside Park. He donated his personal papers, including drafts of "Roots," to the ...

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, ...

Alex Haley’s masterwork Roots turns 50 this year. But a school board’s move to ban the book has stoked outcry, including from ...

Leaders argue that difficult topics such as slavery, segregation and injustice are important parts of history that students ...

The globally-renowned 1976 book “Roots” by Alex Haley, which spurred a broad awakening in African American genealogy and history and was voted as an official state book in 2024, has been banned in ...

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 ...

In 1985, a venerated American author described his affinity for a certain underdog city with big charm. He noted that city's "steadily rising image as a pleasant, entertaining, positive city either to ...