We find out this time that Kunta Kinte’s father was actually stopping ... She also dubbed him Toby, but Kunta never accepted the name, rarely answering to it. Fiddler was responsible for getting ...

Colin Kaepernick is my hero ... t about a T-shirt. Kunta Kinte, of course, is the slave from “Roots,” famous in popular culture for refusing to renounce his African name even as he was ...

After days of sharp disputes with the NFL, the former Super Bowl quarterback walked onto the field for his workout on Saturday wearing a T-shirt bearing the name Kunta Kinte. Kunta Kinte is the ...

But it's more important to him that he speak the name that his father whispered into his ear and that those who have no experience with freedom hear him speaking it, too. Kunta Kinte's obstinance ...

"I am Kunta Kinte." The reimagined ... my experience and bigger than my knowledge. When Kunta eventually submits from the whipping posts and he says the name Toby. I learned that it wasn’t ...

So I was shaken when one of my professors of African history told me that Haley's soul-stirring account of tracing his ancestor Kunta Kinte back to his Gambian home village of Juffure was a fairy ...

Political pundit Keith Olbermann was slammed on Twitter Tuesday for calling President Trump “a whiny little Kunta Kinte,” in a ham-fisted attempt to twist the name of the “Roots” character ...

completed a 40-minute workout in front of reps from at least seven NFL teams on Saturday while at one point wearing a T-shirt bearing the name “Kunta Kinte” — the kidnapped African man ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Malachi Kirby: It felt like it was a big responsibility. Excitement was nowhere to be seen. I can assure you I was not excited; I was scared.