Vandals defaced the tombstone of "Roots" author Alex Haley's grandmother in Savannah, Tenn., spray-painting the phrase "White Lives Matter" on the marker, the Jackson Sun reports.

Roots documents the journey of Haley’s family from West Africa to Tennessee. Haley’s two books became the most important ones in late-20th-century black American homes, other than the Bible ...

The family of Alex Haley received the keys to the city of Annapolis on Saturday, as his 100th birthday was celebrated at a waterside memorial for the author and his African ancestors. Haley wrote ...

Fact, fiction and tangled “Roots”: How a family history that wasn’t entirely true broke through America’s biggest lies From Alex Haley's book to a culture-shaping miniseries, and now an ...

He had just spent the morning talking about cultural diversity, family values and the legacy of “Roots,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that his father, Alex Haley, spent 12 years researching.

ON Friday, NBC will air a special commemorating the 25th anniversary of the landmark miniseries based on Alex Haley’s book “Roots.” Ironically, the original series aired on ABC &#… ...

James Baldwin, reviewing this headline-making novel in 1976, called it “a study of … how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one.” ...

The author of Roots, Alex Haley, describes his experience visiting a griot who told him the story of his ancestors, the Kinte clan. This story originally aired on All Things Considered on November ...