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Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967.
In the Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinka warrior, and his wife Binta.He is raised in a Muslim family. [5] [6] When Kunta reaches the age of 15, he and other boys undergo a semi-secretive tribal rite of passage, under the Kintango, which includes wrestling, circumcision, philosophy, war-craft, and hunting skills.
James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, on January 17, 1931, [12] [13] to Ruth (née Connolly); (1911–1986), a teacher and maid, and Robert Earl Jones (1910–2006), a boxer, butler, and chauffeur. His father left the family shortly after James Earl's birth and later became a stage and screen actor in New York and Hollywood. [14]
James Earl Jones was an actor known for his booming voice, towering presence, and utter commitment to his craft. He passed away on September 9, 2024, at the age of 93. ... “Kunta Kinte, I found ...
Amos played the dad, James Evans, for 61 episodes of the sitcom "Good Times" in the mid-1970s and also the older Kunta Kinte in the. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -John Amos, the U.S. football player ...
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 to America where he died around 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction.
Actor John Amos, left, who portrayed the adult Kunta Kinte in the television miniseries "Roots," with then-Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening in 1999, during a dedication ceremony for a memorial to ...
Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte—a young man taken from The Gambia when he was 17 and sold as a slave—and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Kunta, a Mandinka living by the River Gambia, has a difficult but free childhood in his village, Jufureh. His village subsists on farming, and sometimes they lack enough ...