The 35th annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival celebrated African-American heritage Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Eric Davis, left, and Comacell Brown Jr. act as hosts on ...

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 music ...

Annapolis dedicates a new spot at City Dock today for a plaque marking the arrival 230 years ago of author Alex Haley’s ancestor Kunta Kinte aboard a slave ship. The ceremony, which starts at 11: 45 a ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The group that produces the annual Kunta Kinte Festival in Annapolis says the event will not be held this year due to budget shortfalls. The Capital reports the festival depends ...

The groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots and its powerful characters have returned to the spotlight, as a remake of the series will be simulcast across History, A&E, and Lifetime, over four ...

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 started it all. Both ...