Alex Haley died of a heart attack at age 70 last ... “What ‘Roots’ did for us as a movie and book was tell us African-Americans had a life beyond slavery.” At age 46, he looks like his ...

Alex Haley, a novelist and journalist ... And by that he meant that all the things he had done in his earlier life had exposed him to things, had taught him skills of one another sort or had ...

151; -- When Alex Haley's your uncle, people assume you know everything there is to know about your roots. But Roots, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book whose veracity has been challenged over the ...

Alex Haley retired after 20 years with the Coast ... by a publisher interested in getting the story of Malcolm X's life, and although both men agreed to the project, in Haley's words, "we got ...

"Find the good and praise it," the best-known saying attributed to world-renowned author Alex Haley, was the theme of the night at the Museum of Appalachia's Heroes of Southern Appalachia Award ...