The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

My youngest granddaughter is named Haley. Her mother was in Tennessee’s MBA program and went with me to visit Alex Haley – a fellow University of Tennessee faculty member – at his farm in Norris, ...

The late Alex Haley is internationally known and revered. His masterwork Roots has been translated into 37 languages. When it first aired on network television in 1977 Roots was viewed by some 140 ...

The Society of Journalists and Authors cancelled their Alex Haley Excellence Award ... (Did you see NBC's special on the 25th anniversary of the Roots miniseries the other night?

The Foundation's mission is to spread Alex Haley's vision of a world that celebrates ethnic diversity while honoring humankind's common, universal experiences. Through educational and cultural ...

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots" chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.

During the civil rights struggle of the mid twentieth century many men stood out, such as Martin Luther King, Jr, Medger ...

Officials from Annapolis and West Africa will gather at the Alex Haley Memorial at Annapolis City Dock at 1 p.m. to mark the ...

Burton rose to fame as a child actor in the TV adaptation of Alex Haley’s “Roots,” the show that host Henry Louis Gates cited ...