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 ...

Even Haley’s friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. stated that if we are going to “speak candidly,” we have to concede that “it’s highly unlikely that Alex actually found the ...

"The late Alex Haley, the author of Roots, lived his life by these six words: Find the good and praise it," Alexander said Monday on the National Mall, just before he introduced Justice Sonia ...

Alex Haley, the author of the celebrated book, said it was based on his own family history. But Haley, who died in 1992, was famously accused of plagiarizing parts of the Pulitzer-winning “Roots ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alex Haley, it told the story of an African American family from colonialism to reconstruction and literally brought the discussion of ...