It’s a career-making performance for Kirby, the 26-year-old Brit who describes filming the miniseries as a spiritual experience. “For most of the stuff, I didn’t know how to prepare, so I prayed. I ...

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Giving up has never been in Kunta Kinte’s blood, and it seems his daughter has taken on his fighting spirit in Part 2 of Roots. It’s been 10 years since we last saw Kunta, and in that time he was ...

Burton and Kirby retraced their own roots to learn the ancestral origins of their DNA, and the results were surprising (watch the video above). "75-percent of our DNA -- Malachi's and mine -- shows up ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism. But the island where he and tens of thousands ...

REPORT - When a Roots remake was announced earlier in the year, many wondered who would play the iconic role of Kunta Kinte - now Deadline has finally put speculation to rest. When a Roots remake was ...

Malachi Kirby and LeVar Burton stand side by side in the first photo released from the new miniseries remake of “Roots.” Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 book of the same name, the classic “Roots” follows ...

The original "Roots" showed audiences 'history, not from the colonizer's point of view...' Director Mario Van Peebles, on how the new series will carry the torch. In 1977, ABC aired the mini-series ...

NEW YORK — LeVar Burton was only a sophomore at the University of Southern California when he was cast as Roots' enslaved hero Kunta Kinte. Arriving on the series' Savannah, Ga., set in spring 1976, ...

Malachi Kirby says it was literally a spiritual journey to take on the iconic role of Gambian warrior Kunta Kinte in the History Channel's daring remake of the 1977 mini-series, Roots. “On the set, I ...

Stars from the original weigh in on the remake, which premieres tonight. — -- When LeVar Burton first got word that there could be a remake of "Roots," he wasn't sure what to make of it. The ...

0000018f-87fb-dcea-afcf-cffbda930000 Malachi Kirby plays Kunta Kinte in the new 'Roots' mini-series, airing on History channel.; Credit: Courtesy History channel In 1977, ABC aired the mini-series ...