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No one can deny Alex Haley’s impact on America. He is one of the best-selling African American authors in history. He won a special Pulitzer Prize for his seminal book, “Roots: The Saga of an ...
Local historians and Black leaders are reexamining the legacy of Alex Haley after a new book revealed discrepancies in an interview the author published with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965.
The second oldest of Alex Haley's four living grandchildren, Bill Haley was 28 years old when the author passed away. He continues to carry on the family's name by treasuring the legacy of his ...
"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 ...
Local historians and Black leaders are reexamining the legacy of Alex Haley after a new book revealed discrepancies in an interview the author published with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965… ...