I vividly recall the original iteration of the TV miniseries Roots. It was January 1977 and I was 17. As with most young people that age, my life was rapidly growing independent of my parents, who ...

Near the end of "Roots," the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries, savvy Chicken George famously notes that when Plan A fails, you'd better have a Plan B. For some 100 million viewers – about 45 percent of ...

*Forest Whitaker, Anika Noni Rose and Derek Luke are among the actors newly cast in A&E Networks’ remake of “Roots,” the network announced Wednesday. Whitaker will play Fiddler, a slave who risks his ...