ATLANTA — The visuals and emotions from Alvin Ross’ Kunta Kinteh Island documentary, which details the legacy of arguably history’s most famous slave ever, exploded off the screen and enveloped the ...

This documentary film chronicles the process of renaming Ft. James Island, which was a holding cell for slaves during the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, to Kunta Kinteh Island- after one of The Gambia's ...

Filming in the Gambian fields for the documentary, “Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles.” Elvin Ross Studio Courtesy A descendent of Kunta Kinteh, the slave at the heart of Alex Haley’s ...

The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the middle of the Gambia River is reduced to a smaller version of its ...

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinteh, immortalized in print and on screen in the series "Roots", put Gambia on the map for historical tourism. Now, the descendants of slaves are ...

KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND, Gambia, Aug 29 (Reuters) - When Gambian boat captain Abdoulie Jabang ferries visitors to Kunta Kinteh island he tells them that the waves lapping the shores of the former slave ...

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 ...

Loyola University presents Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles tonight. Ben Vereen stars in the film and will attend the screening. Vereen starred as Chicken George in the 1977 ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pulley hangs over a well at the Old English fort, which previously housed a now defunct slavery museum in the slave port of ...

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 ...