Molly Ringwald ( Feud: Capote and the Swans) and LeVar Burton ( Roots, Reading Rainbow) have joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ One Night Only, premiering August 7. They join the previously ...

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 ...

In 1977, no one could have predicted just how popular the miniseries Roots was going to be. John Amos, who played Kunta Kinte as an older man, however, remembers the moment he knew. "When I found out ...

John Amos, the actor known for his role as the family patriarch on the hit sitcom “Good Times” and the adult Kunta Kinte in the famed original miniseries “Roots,” has died, according to a his longtime ...

Based on author Alex Haley’s novel, Roots aired for eight nights in 1977. The miniseries detailed the life of Kunta Kinte, a Gambian boy sold into slavery at the age of 15. He joins other Black people ...