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 ...

Kunta Kinte Island sits at the mouth of the Gambia River. Though tiny – it is barely big enough to house some ruins of its past and a baobab grove – the role it has played in world history has been ...

But one of the most touching tributes of all came from LeVar Burton, Amos’ co-star in the hit 1977 mini-series “Roots.” Burton played a young Kunta Kinte, the son of an African warrior who is captured ...

After about three hours, Olbermann finally deleted the tweet, and posted a new one with an apology that included calling the name “Kunta Kinte” a “sound-alike” for the c- word, which it is not. Just ...

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 ...

Kunta Kinte, in a video, was at a bar with a friend when his vintage hit song as part of the duo, Bradez, was played by the DJ, and he passionately sang his verse The musician seemed in high spirits ...

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

In the last moments of the first night of History's Roots remake, Kunta Kinte is whipped over his name, as he has to shrug on the identity of "Toby," a slave at the Waller plantation, and deny his ...

The Clones of Funk perform on the main stage. The 31st Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival was held Saturday, September 25, 2021, at City Dock in Annapolis. The Clones of Funk perform on the main stage. The ...