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 ...

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 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 ...

Malachi Kirby says it was literally a spiritual journey to take on the iconic role of Gambian warrior Kunta Kinte in the History Channel's daring remake of the 1977 mini-series, Roots. “On the set, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group takes a selfie at the event. The 32nd annual Kunta Kinte Festival, a celebration of the perseverance, education, and cultural heritage of Africans, African Americans, and Caribbean people of ...