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Veteran actor John Amos of ‘Roots’ and ‘Good Times’ fame passes on
Amos also portrayed the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark 1977 miniseries “Roots,” acting alongside some of the era’s most prominent Black actors, including Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton ...
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Louis Gossett Jr., Award-Winning ‘Roots’ Actor, Dead at 87
The legendary actor Louis Gossett ... Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which dramatized the author's "family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his ...
Hundreds join LeVar Burton at Altadena Main Library, for a voice of hope in a fire-weary town
LeVar Burton visited the Altadena Library Saturday to talk about the beauty of the book, and how reading can help children ...
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Hundreds join LeVar Burton at Altadena Main Library, for a voice of hope in a fire-weary town
who is a fan of the actor’s central role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries “Roots” with her daughter Michelle, who knows and loves Burton as Geordi La Forge in “Star Trek ...