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Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America. It explores his life and those of his descendants in the United States, down to Haley.
Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation : the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers.
Alex Haley's Queen (also known as Queen) is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family , by Alex Haley and David Stevens .
Known best for his 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece - coming up on its 50th anniversary since its release - "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," Alex Haley's literary legacy left a mark ...
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) [1] was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.
Alex Haley’s landmark book began in Reader’s Digest, where he worked as a senior editor. Its impact is still being felt today. The post Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Lasting Impact of Alex Haley ...
Kunta Kinte (/ ˈ k uː n t ɑː ˈ k ɪ n t eɪ / KOON-tah KIN-tay; c. 1750 – c. 1822) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. Kunta Kinte was based on family oral tradition accounts of one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1767, enslaved, and taken ...
One Tree Hill alum Bethany Joy Lenz has been candid about her “recovery” after a decade in a cult. “I was in a cult for 10 years,” Lenz said during a July 2023 episode of her “Drama ...