Kunta Kinte
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Celebrate LeVar Burton’s 60th With A Look Back At His Best Roles
Geordi La Forge, Kunta Kinte, and the host of Reading Rainbow are all celebrating their 60th birthday today, because guess what, they’re the same guy: LeVar Burton!
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‘Roots’ Night 2: A Story of Perseverance and Love
Roots returned Tuesday night for “Part 2”, and despite being a story full of tragic events, it reminded us of how light can still permeate even the saddest of scenarios. After getting his foot chopped in half, Kunta Kinte was able to find love for the first time since becoming a slave when he woke up and met Bell. The two became close while Bell helped him walk again and eventually, Kunta decided he wanted to marry her.
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‘Roots’ Returns With Powerful Performances
It’s been nearly 40 years since Roots first aired and this week the legendary miniseries has been remade with a new cast but the same emotional, hard-to-watch scenes of Kunta Kinte’s struggle to be a free man. Malachi Kirby, the young man who has taken over the role of Kunta, did an amazing job capturing the raw pain and anger that LeVar Burton portrayed back in 1977. Burton is now an Executive Producer on the remake and even made a brief cameo.
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‘Roots’: Remade For A New Generation
The new 'Roots' excels in the naturalism of its performances to make the horror of slavery vividly painful — and the resistance to it uplifting — in a way that deepens the tale.
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Get to Know ‘Roots’ Remake Star Malachi Kirby — and His Road to an Iconic Role
If you don’t know the name Malachi Kirby now, you’ll want to remember it after the Memorial Day premiere of History’s 'Roots' remake.
