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.

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.” ...

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Kwesi and Bisa Gray stroll through the 33rd Annual Kunta Kinte Festival at City Dock in Annapolis on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. Tony Wilson of Bamboo Cottage pulverises sugar cane to make juice at th… ...

The bronze plaque, dedicated to Kunta Kinte and “all those who came to these shores in bondage and who, by their toil, character and ceaseless struggle for freedom have helped to make these ...

Whether Kunta Kinte actually was Haley’s real ancestor or not (critics have charged he wasn’t), the book is rich and compelling. • It is possible that next year’s Rivers of Africa cruise ...

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 ...

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 ...

And they use it very well. We find out this time that Kunta Kinte’s father was actually stopping African slavers trading with European slavers and freeing captives on the day that Kunta was born.

Digging Kunta Kinte Watching [The Root’s Editor-in-Chief] Henry Louis Gates Jr. delve into the ancestry of African Americans on PBS recently got me thinking about Alex Haley’s Roots, the book ...

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 ...

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 … ...