The 35th annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival celebrated African-American heritage Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Eric Davis, left, and Comacell Brown Jr. act as hosts on ...

The 34th annual The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival was held Saturday in the grounds of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Robin Monroe and her grandson Noah Maura, 4, dance to the music ...

Annapolis dedicates a new spot at City Dock today for a plaque marking the arrival 230 years ago of author Alex Haley’s ancestor Kunta Kinte aboard a slave ship. The ceremony, which starts at 11: 45 a ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — On a sunny day in September 1981, state, county and city officials joined author Alex Haley dockside in Annapolis to dedicate a plaque in honor of his ancestor, an enslaved ...

Watching [The Root’s Editor-in-Chief] Henry Louis Gates Jr. delve into the ancestry of African Americans on PBS recently got me thinking about Alex Haley’s Roots, the book that started it all. Both ...

The groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots and its powerful characters have returned to the spotlight, as a remake of the series will be simulcast across History, A&E, and Lifetime, over four ...

On a sunny day in September 1981, state, county and city officials joined author Alex Haley dockside in Annapolis to dedicate a plaque in honor of his ancestor, an enslaved African named Kunta Kinte, ...