Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American writer and author Alex Haley (1921 - 1992), UK, 12th April 1977. (Photo by Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton ...

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 ...

Fifty summers ago, in 1976, journalist and author Alex Haley published his masterwork, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” The timing was exquisite. As the nation celebrated the bicentennial with ...

CLINTON, Tenn. — National literacy and children’s advocates gathered at the Alex Haley Farm this week to praise Knox County Schools’ decision to return the book "Roots" to library shelves after it was ...

50 years after Alex Haley’s groundbreaking “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” landed on shelves, its legacy remains urgent. Sitting on my parents’ bookshelf is a copy of the novel “Roots: The ...

A 33 1/3 rpm LP record album titled "Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots" by Alex Haley. The cover of the album features a photograph of Alex Haley and text in the upper left that reads ...

Grandma's Boy -- The Cook Who Writes -- People on the Way Up -- The Fearsome Black Demagogue -- Marked Man -- Before This Anger -- The American Griot -- The Black Family Bible -- Pop Triumph -- Roots ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Knox County Schools has banned the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” from all school library shelves under Tennessee’s Age-Appropriate ...

*A Tennessee school district has pulled one of American literature’s most significant works from its shelves. Knox County Schools confirmed that Alex Haley’s “Roots” has been banned, joining six other ...

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 ...