REPORT - When a Roots remake was announced earlier in the year, many wondered who would play the iconic role of Kunta Kinte - now Deadline has finally put speculation to rest. When a Roots remake was ...

Weather permitting, the 33rd Annual Kunta Kinte Festival is set to take place on Saturday at Annapolis City Dock and Susan Campbell Park. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Jan Lee, chair of ...

Second Baptist Church, 1808 Poplar Ave., will offer a fat free weight loss support group from 7 to 8 p.m. Mondays Sept. 14 through Nov. 30. For more information, call the church at 410-280-9347 or 410 ...

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 26 (UPI) --British actor Malachi Kirby has nabbed the role of Kunta Kinte in A&E's upcoming Roots remake. The special event series will follow the story of Kinte and his family as ...

'Roots' trailer revisits Kunta Kinte and his epic story. The first trailer for the History Channel’s remake of the 1977 slavery epic, Roots has officially been released, and in under 3 minutes, ...

Kunta Kinte, the slave immortalized by author Alex Haley in Roots, landed in Annapolis in September 1767. This weekend, celebrate Kunta Kinte’s legacy, and the historic contributions of ...

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 been ...