Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley's book "Roots" is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County ...

A Tennessee school district has made the decision to ban Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family over one paragraph. The district confirmed the decision to Knox News on Thursday (May 14).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an Aug. 24,1984 photograph, Alex Haley, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Roots," is pictured at the old Knoxville News ...

A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Knox ...

The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The ...

Sitting on my parents’ bookshelf is a copy of the novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” by Alex Haley that’s been in this family longer than me. Not a copy purchased years after the fact or ...

Knox County Schools in Tennessee is removing Alex Haley's 1976 novel "Roots" from its libraries. The removal is part of a larger ban that now includes 119 titles across the school district. Author ...

There was a time when a book could shake the world and on Aug. 17, 1976, a book titled “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” by Alex Haley arrived on bookstore shelves and immediately began to fly ...

"Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" By Lucas L. Johnson II (Broadleaf Books, 221 pages, $25.99) Alex Haley's "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" was published in ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously removed other books from ...