Kadi touray biography
Roots (1977 miniseries)
1977 American TV miniseries
This article is about the 1977 miniseries. For the novel it is based on, see Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of enslavement in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights.
A critical and ratings success over the course of its run, Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in U.S. television history.
A sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas television film, starring LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr., first aired in 1988. A related film, Alex Haley's Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother.
In 2016, a remake of the original miniseries, with the same name, was commissioned by the History channel and screened by the channel on Memorial Day.
Plot
Colonial times
In the Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinkawarrior, and his wife Binta. He is raised in a Muslim family. When Kunta reaches the age of 15, he and other boys undergo a semi-secretive tribal rite of passage, under the Kintango, which includes wrestling, circumcision, philosophy, war-craft, and hunting skills.
Meanwhile, Captain Thomas Davies meets Vilars, the owner of a cargo ship named Lord Ligonier, and is given command of the vessel in order to trade goods between England, Africa and America. Only at the last minute is he informed that part of
O. J. Simpson
American football player and actor (1947–2024)
"The Juice" redirects here. For other uses, see Juice (disambiguation).
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| Born | Orenthal James Simpson (1947-07-09)July 9, 1947 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 10, 2024(2024-04-10) (aged 76) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Other names | The Juice |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
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| Spouses | Marguerite Whitley (m. 1967; div. 1979)Nicole Brown (m. 1985; div. 1992) |
| Children | 5 |
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| Position: | Running back |
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight: | 212 lb (96 kg) |
| High school: | Galileo(San Francisco, California) |
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| NFL draft: | 1969 / round: 1 / pick: 1 |
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