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 ...

Obanion Gordon traveled from New Jersey to be at The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival and couldn’t wait to be in Annapolis for its 31st annual event following last year’s hiatus due to the ...

Kunta Kinte's obstinance, even while under the whip, is the most powerful scene in "Roots," the television miniseries that enthralled the nation in 1977.

Kunta Kinte Island sits at the mouth of the Gambia River. Though tiny – it is barely big enough to house some ruins of its past and a baobab grove – the role it has played in world history has ...

Kunta Kinte, in a video, flaunted a new hairstyle as he jammed to his 2024 song, I Dey 4 U which featured Kweku Darlington ; The member of the Bradez music group ditched his previous punk ...

Since writer Alex Haley traced his roots to his Mandinka ancestor Kunta Kinte in this poor Gambian village in the late 1960s, Juffure’s residents have come to depend on tourists, ...

Malachi Kirby says it was literally a spiritual journey to take on the iconic role of Gambian warrior Kunta Kinte in the History Channel's daring remake of the 1977 mini-series, Roots. “On the ...

We find out this time that Kunta Kinte’s father was actually stopping African slavers trading with European slavers and freeing captives on the day that Kunta was born.

Digging Kunta Kinte 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 ...

Kunta Kinte Island sits at the mouth of the Gambia River. Though tiny – it is barely big enough to house some ruins of its past and a baobab grove – the role it has played in world history has ...

Kunta Kinte Island sits at the mouth of the Gambia River. Though tiny – it is barely big enough to house some ruins of its past and a baobab grove – the role it has played in world history has ...