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The 35th annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival was held at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Saturday in Annapolis.
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 ...
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 ...
LeVar Burton has weighed in on a man claiming there's no way he can be racist because he allegedly has a tattoo of Kunta Kinte on his arm. A caller named James hit up the English talk radio station ...
Sports journalist Jason Whitlock likened the treatment of rapper Kanye West to Kunta Kinte in the 1970s miniseries 'Roots' in an interview Thursday with FOX News host Tucker Carlson. West sat down ...
LeVar Burton has never been one to shy away from representing the culture, but his latest post reconfirms that fact to those who may have forgotten this fact. A follow-up tweet expounded on why he ...
The rescheduled Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival returns to Annapolis on Saturday celebrating African American culture with music, dance, arts and crafts, food and children’s activities. It runs from 10 ...
To recognize Black History Month, Book of the Day is digging into the archives to bring you some important interviews. In 1977, author Alex Haley told NPR he didn't want to put the main character of ...
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 ...