Roots
The screen adaptation of Alex Haley’s biography about his family’s rise from slavery to eventual liberation was a major landmark television event when it aired over several episodes in 1977. It Featuring an all-star cast of black Hollywood icons, including LeVar Burton (Kunta Kinte), Ben Vereen (Chicken George), Lou Gossett Jr. (Fiddler) and Leslie Uggams (Kizzy) the major television series took us on a journey of Africans sold into bondage.
