Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American writer and author Alex Haley (1921 - 1992), UK, 12th April 1977. (Photo by Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton ...

In Alabama, maybe, or understood, perhaps, in Mississippi, but Knox County, Tennessee? Inconceivable. I was stunned to learn that the county near where I grew up and in which I lived three times ‒ the ...

A Tennessee school district has made the decision to ban Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family over one paragraph. The district confirmed the decision to Knox News on Thursday (May 14).

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously removed other books from ...

The landmark 1976 novel joins dozens of books by Black authors facing increased scrutiny and removal in schools nationwide. A Tennessee school district has banned "Roots," the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Following the decision last week by a Tennessee school district to ban Alex Haley's globally renowned book “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” family and friends of the late Pulitzer ...

*A Tennessee school district has pulled one of American literature’s most significant works from its shelves. Knox County Schools confirmed that Alex Haley’s “Roots” has been banned, joining six other ...

The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The ...

CLINTON, Tenn. — National literacy and children’s advocates gathered at the Alex Haley Farm this week to praise Knox County Schools’ decision to return the book "Roots" to library shelves after it was ...

"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 ...

A 33 1/3 rpm LP record album titled "Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots" by Alex Haley. The cover of the album features a photograph of Alex Haley and text in the upper left that reads ...