The 34th annual The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival was held Saturday in the grounds of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. (Paul W. Gillespie/Staff) Freda Raines shops at a vendor booth.

Annapolis was ranked among the 10 best towns to visit in America by CNN. Rankers appreciated its nautical and historical vibe ...

Far-left pundit Keith Olbermann shocked Twitter on Tuesday by comparing Trump to “Kunta Kinte,” a fictional slave from the 1976 novel and 1977 TV miniseries “Roots.” ...

Burton, who famously portrayed Kunta Kinte in the television adaptation, got into the mix. Keith Olbermann received major backlash after he compared Donald Trump to a fictional Black slave from ...

The comparison between Kunta Kinte, the protagonist of Alex Haley’s novel-turned-miniseries about slavery, and Trump was lost on everyone but Olbermann (and Dennis Miller, probably), who deleted ...

In one of his Twitter missives, the former ESPN and MSNBC host made a weird tweet referencing LeVar Burton's iconic Kunta Kinte character, and the actor made sure to school Olbermann on his mishap ...

LeVar Burton Responds to Man Claiming Tattoo of 'Hero' Kunta Kinte Proves He's 'Not Racist in Any Way' The 67-year-old actor received an Emmy nod for his portrayal of Kunta Kinte in the 1977 TV ...

Keith Olbermann — formerly of MSNBC and ESPN — drew immediate condemnation Tuesday when he labeled President Donald Trump a “whiny Kunta Kinte” in a tweet.

Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 book of the same name, the classic “Roots” follows the history of Haley’s own family from the abduction in Africa of eventual slave Kunta Kinte, through the ...

Kunta Kinte refuses to accept this new slave identity, which only makes Fiddler more persistent: “No. No. No. Listen to me,” he says. “The Master’s wife done named you Toby … ...

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 ...

Dressed as a slave, Sharif Shafi, wears a punishment collar, calling attention to black history. The 32nd annual Kunta Kinte Festival, a celebration of the perseverance, education, and cultural ...