More than 230 years after Kunta Kinte landed at the Annapolis City Dock from Africa, state, county and city officials announced plans in the state capital yesterday for a statue of his descendant ...

The spot at City Dock in the state capital where a chained Kunta Kinte was led off a ship 230 ... money to build a memorial to Haley with a statue of him and a “story wall.” ...

The original was never found, according to Patsy Baker Blackshear, president of The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation. “[The statue is] intended to represent not only Alex Haley and his ...

The centerpiece, a bronze statue of Haley reading a book to three ... Key players in developing the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley memorial, in background, include Anne Arundel County official Carl ...

"They get just about as hard use as any bronze statues anywhere," said Greg Stiverson, president of the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation. The monument was dedicated in June 2002. It is at the ...

Some statues are forgotten, while others should be. But the true meaning of any art is in how it is interpreted by the beholder. In the case of the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial at City Dock in ...

The memorial to Haley and Kunta Kinte gave him that chance to talk to his children about a painful piece of U.S. history. Another family with children frolicking around the statue said the ...

Kunta Kinte, an African slave made famous in Alex ... Peggielene Bartels, a Ghana native who now lives in Silver Spring, sold hand-carved statues from her home country. One red-and-black statue ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) -- The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival will return to City Dock this weekend for its 31st year. The festival celebrating the perseverance, education and cultural heritage of ...

Kunta Kinte Island sits at the mouth of the Gambia River. Though tiny – it is barely big enough to house some ruins of its past and a baobab grove – the role it has played in world history has ...

Malachi Kirby is Kunta Kinte in History's New Orleans-shot remake of the slavery epic 'Roots.' (A E Networks) "Omoro then walked out before all the assembled people of the village. Moving to his ...