The 33rd Annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival, which was scheduled to take place on Saturday, has been canceled due to heavy rain that is expected to arrive in the Annapolis area late Friday and into ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Kunta Kinte’s abduction from Africa into slavery is being retold for a new generation. On Memorial Day, History Channel will premiere its remake of Roots, the landmark ABC miniseries that ...

The toughest role to cast in the hit miniseries “Roots” was the central character of Kunta Kinte. The whole series depended on finding a young, fit actor who could credibly portray a man captured into ...

In the last moments of the first night of History's Roots remake, Kunta Kinte is whipped over his name, as he has to shrug on the identity of "Toby," a slave at the Waller plantation, and deny his ...

Cast: Forest Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland,” “The Butler”), Anna Paquin (“True Blood,” “X-Men”), Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix,” “Black ...