5/29/2023 0 Comments Roots alex haley seriesNow, 40 years after the release of the original Roots, Kunta Kinte’s story has been remade to appeal to a new generation and, depressingly, its story feels just as urgent now as it did then. Roots inspired a change in these antiquated attitudes and, most importantly, sparked a global conversation about the history of slavery and its resulting innate racism. Though the social climate in the US was slowly shifting at the time, TV networks were still reluctant to air movies and series starring black actors, insisting that white audiences would not tune in. Based on Alex Haley’s novel ‘Roots: The Saga of an American Family’, the series starred LeVar Burton in the role of the legendary Kunta Kinte and, for the first time, the story of African-American slavery was told not from the perspective of the coloniser, but through the eyes of the victims of one of the darkest periods in human history. In January 1977, a historic TV event captivated 85 per cent of the American population: the ABC-TV’s mini-series Roots.
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