Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The Road We Took

PBS NC helps your community explore new worlds and ideas through programs that educate, inform and inspire. Your ...
The Fader

This 2002 Interview With The Roots Is A Reminder To Think Outside The Box

In 2002, then FADER editor-at-large Knox Robinson wrote about The Roots for the cover of The FADER issue 12. As far as I know, there’s only been one good Roots story ever written. Abbey Goodman wrote ...
People

Cast of 'Roots' Got DNA Ancestry Tests – and Learned Some Surprising Results

A common ancestor linked two of the 1977 miniseries most unlikely players Nearly 130 million people turned into ABC’s 1977 miniseries Roots during it’s original airing – establishing it as one of the ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Roots’ is still fresh and shocking 40 years later

“Roots” premiered on ABC in January 1977, just a few months after Alex Haley published the historical novel upon which it was based -- a phenomenon on the back of a phenomenon. Now remade for the flat ...