ATLANTA — The visuals and emotions from Alvin Ross’ Kunta Kinteh Island documentary, which details the legacy of arguably history’s most famous slave ever, exploded off the screen and enveloped the ...

Loyola University presents Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles tonight. Ben Vereen stars in the film and will attend the screening. Vereen starred as Chicken George in the 1977 ...

Filming in the Gambian fields for the documentary, “Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles.” Elvin Ross Studio Courtesy A descendent of Kunta Kinteh, the slave at the heart of Alex Haley’s ...

James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe along the River Gambia, a continuum stretching from pre-colonial and ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism. But the island where he and tens of thousands ...

BANJUL, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The descendants and the home village of the enslaved Kunta Kinte from Gambia have been economically benefiting from his historical legacy through booming tourism in Jufureh ...

A pulley hangs over a well at the Old English fort, which previously housed a now defunct slavery museum in the slave port of Ouidah, Benin. (Photo: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND, ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinteh, immortalized in print and on screen in the series "Roots", put Gambia on the map for historical tourism. Now, the descendants of slaves are ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the ...

The direct descendants of Kunta Kinte, Alex Haley, Harriet Tubman and William Paca gathered June 26 to launch the Kunta Kinteh Family Foundation in Annapolis. The private reception, co-hosted by Lamin ...

The famous James Island has been renamed Kunta Kinteh Island. The decision to rename the island, which has great significance in our history, indeed shows that organisers of the Roots Festival are ...

The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the middle of the Gambia River is reduced to a smaller version of its ...