Lamar Alexander, a Republican United States Senator from 2003 to 2021, was Governor of Tennessee in 1986 when the Alex Haley Museum was created. Alex Haley would have been 100 ...

That author was Alex Haley, whose love for Knoxville and the East Tennessee region was part of what inspired him to build a home in nearby Norris, where he spent much of his later years.

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.

"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 ...

In the office of the late Alex Haley, author of “Roots,” hung a picture of a turtle sitting on a fence post. It reminded ...

Jonathan Eig, a well-known journalist and biographer, accused author Alex Haley of making up quotes in a January 1965 Playboy interview attributed to Martin Luther King Jr., in which King rips ...

It was heartwarming to read about Henry Winkler’s supportive advice for a first-time author (“It’s Hard ... my table—until I realized that Alex Haley was sitting right next to me.

In the Playboy interview conducted by Roots author Alex Haley, King was published as saying at the conclusion of a long comment about Malcolm X, “And in his litany of articulating the despair of ...

"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 ...

"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 ...