Haley’s Roots “described the brutalities that one race inflicted on another.” Alex Haley passed away on February 10, 1992, at the age of seventy.

Roots, made in 1977, was based on a novel by Alex Haley, which tells the story of a family enduring capture, slavery and the American civil war over a number of generations. Since its inception ...

best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with an interview recorded in February 1988. Alex Haley died in February 1992. The post A ...