ATLANTA — The visuals and emotions from Alvin Ross’ Kunta Kinteh Island documentary, which details the legacy of arguably history’s most famous slave ever, exploded off the screen and enveloped the ...

Filming in the Gambian fields for the documentary, “Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles.” Elvin Ross Studio Courtesy A descendent of Kunta Kinteh, the slave at the heart of Alex Haley’s ...

James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe along the River Gambia, a continuum stretching from pre-colonial and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the ...

BANJUL, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The descendants and the home village of the enslaved Kunta Kinte from Gambia have been economically benefiting from his historical legacy through booming tourism in Jufureh ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism. But the island where he and tens of thousands ...

A pulley hangs over a well at the Old English fort, which previously housed a now defunct slavery museum in the slave port of Ouidah, Benin. (Photo: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND, ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinteh, immortalized in print and on screen in the series "Roots", put Gambia on the map for historical tourism. Now, the descendants of slaves are ...

Loyola University presents Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles tonight. Ben Vereen stars in the film and will attend the screening. Vereen starred as Chicken George in the 1977 ...

KING 5 News sat down with Lamin Jatta, the ninth descendant of Kunta Kinteh, to talk about a new documentary called Kunta Kinteh Island directed by Elvin Ross. Jatta was in Tacoma Friday to promote ...

The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the middle of the Gambia River is reduced to a smaller version of its ...