Roots
Friday, Mar. 29, 2024
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 87.
Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement...
Wednesday, May. 25, 2016
Will history repeat itself with the remake of "Roots" ?
The original miniseries, based on Alex Haley's best-seller, became a national phenomenon in 1977 as it told the multigenerational saga of his forebears, beginning with Kunta Kinte, a West African teen captured in the mid-1700s by...