The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents a tribute to the late Alexander Murray Palmer ...
That author was Alex Haley, whose love for Knoxville ... After being excerpted in Reader's Digest in 1974, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" was published in full in 1976 and became the ...
Former Tennessee governor and U.S. senator Lamar Alexander presented the award to the late author's family, represented by ...
The PBS hit Finding Your Roots inspired me, like so many viewers, to start climbing my own family tree ... “It was designed to do Alex Haley in a test tube,” Gates says with a smile, referring ...