A new festival celebrating the Ohio River and its role in American history is set to take over Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. America's River Roots Festival, a five-day festival kicking off the ...

The world was in upheaval in 1977, and the economic despair, political instability, and social changes were often reflected in the defining rock songs of the year. Punk rock emerged from this chaotic ...

If you've ever watched a television show that stumbles as it tries to extract season after season of material from a creative reservoir that has already been drained, you'll have a fresh appreciation ...

The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of the sci-fi classic, which lacks all of George Lucas' post-release tweaks and polishes and looks "like a completely different film ...

The first American pope's grandparents identified as Black, records show. Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, ...

The other day, a couple of ESSENCE.com staffers were watching a DVD compilation of the 1977 miniseries “Roots,” and we immediately became obsessed with Leslie Uggams, the gorgeous actress who played ...

Roots Picnic will return to the Mann in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on May 31 and June 1. The weekend will feature the Roots celebrating the 30th anniversary of Do You Want More?!!!??!, as well as ...

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

John Amos, the star of “Good Times,” “Roots” and more, died on Aug. 21 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his representative confirmed to Variety on Tuesday. He was 84. “It is with heartfelt sadness ...