![]() Each generation must make up its own mind about how it will navigate the treacherous waters of our nation’s racial sin. ![]() It affected events far beyond its pages and was a literary North Star…. To quote from the introduction by Michael Eric Dyson: “Alex Haley’s Roots is unquestionably one of the nation’s seminal texts. It is a book for the legions of earlier readers to revisit and for a new generation to discover. Now, Roots once again bursts onto the national scene, and at a time when the race conversation has never been more charged. In the four decades since then, the story of the young African slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants has lost none of its power to enthrall and provoke. The celebrated miniseries that followed a year later was a coast-to-coast event-over 130 million Americans watched some or all of the broadcast. When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book electrified the nation: it received a Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller for 22 weeks. ![]() Based off of the bestselling author’s family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events. ![]()
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