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Kunta Kinte is the central figure of Alex Haley’s 1976 novel Roots and the subsequent TV miniseries—presented by Haley as his 18th‑century Mandinka ancestor who was captured in Juffureh, The Gambia, a...
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American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)
Kunta Kinte is the central figure of Alex Haley’s 1976 novel Roots and the subsequent TV miniseries—presented by Haley as his 18th‑century Mandinka ancestor who was captured in Juffureh, The Gambia, a...
A short list of Malcolm X’s most famous, frequently reprinted lines captures his evolution from Nation of Islam minister to global human-rights advocate; these include aphorisms about conviction (“A m...