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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KING 5 News sat down with Lamin Jatta, the ninth descendant of Kunta Kinteh, to talk about a new documentary called Kunta Kinteh Island directed by Elvin Ross. Jatta was in Tacoma Friday to promote ...

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 ...

The direct descendants of Kunta Kinte, Alex Haley, Harriet Tubman and William Paca gathered June 26 to launch the Kunta Kinteh Family Foundation in Annapolis. The private reception, co-hosted by Lamin ...

New Orleans native Elvin Ross. "Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles", a documentary film by New Orleans native Elvin Ross will get three New Orleans screenings on Feb. 25 and Feb. 26.

James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe along the River Gambia, a continuum stretching from pre-colonial and ...

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 ...