Back in ’77, there was no HBO, Hulu or iTunes. When it came to your television-watching possibilities, you were pretty much a captive of network TV. (And, perhaps, on a good night, PBS.) But even with ...

The feelings towards The History Channel’s remake of Alex Haley’s Roots miniseries are almost as complicated as the history explored in the eight-hour epic about Kunta Kinte, an African man sold into ...

Image Source: Museum of the Moving Image The TV miniseries Roots is based on an historical novel by Alex Haley, who traced his family’s history from Western Africa through slavery in the U.S. past ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Week In History: On Jan. 23, 1977, the miniseries "Roots" premiered on ABC-TV and was featured on the cover of The Dispatch's ...