Kunta Kinte

Seasoned actor LeVar Burton will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Award ceremony happening later this year for his decades of work in Hollywood, highlighted by a career-defining role as Kunta Kinte in the iconic miniseries 'Roots.'

Up-and-coming British actor Malachi Kirby has been cast as Kunta Kinte in A&E Networks’ remake of “Roots,” reports Deadline.com. Billed as an “event series,” the remake will follow the iconic character as he is captured from his homeland Gambia and sold into slavery in America, and his descendants struggle to survive over the next century. […]

Lavar Burton contributed, perhaps, the most salient commentary on “Django Unchained” any celebrity of note has made when asked about the film while in New York this week. Burton was in town for the taping of “Pioneers of Television“–which includes an installment focusing on “Roots”–when a TMZ photographer caught up with him. The interview got […]