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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 05/19/2009
In this article on the Atlanta Braves’ Brian Barton, the write pretty much brands the ballplayer an egghead. Last summer, during his first full season in the major leagues, he read 17 books. He recently finished off the 900-page “Roots” by Alex Haley. Which made me think of this line from Bull Durham by Max Patkin to [...]
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Black Gay Gossip (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Most of us know him from the long-running PBS series, Reading Rainbow or for his portrayal as Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley’s Roots, but LeVar Burton has taken on a new role. Burton is starring in a new play, The Caterer, at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, where he plays a man that [...]
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About Genealogy (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
A few weeks ago the story of "Roots" author Alex Haley's Scottish ancestry made news at the Who do You Think You Are? LIVE show in London. Now, Rita Rubin...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Thanks to technology that became available after the Roots author Alex Haley's death in 1992, nephew Chris Haley recently uncovered ...
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About Genealogy (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
I'm always amazed just how much you can actually learn about your family history through DNA if you really dig down into the details. Alex Haley, the famous author of...
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Chris Haley, nephew of the late Alex Haley, discovered he has ancestors in Scotland through a DNA test he took for Ancestry.com at the 2007 FGS Conference. He reunited with his cousin, June Baff Black, at the 2009 WDYTYA? Live! event in London.I wrote about this earlier at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/02/haleybaff-family-reunion-thanks-to-dna.html and now Roots Television has...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
DNA evidence reveals that bestselling Roots author Alex Haley was descended from a Scotsman.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
DNA evidence reveals that bestselling Roots author Alex Haley was descended from a Scotsman.
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
This is a fascinating story, involving genealogy, the late Alex Haley, his nephew Chris Haley, and a family in Scotland. In brief, Alex Haley's roots and those of Chris Haley have now been traced back to... Scotland! This week the "family" had a reunion in London, and I was fortunate enough to be there to watch it happen. I even took pictures.Alex Haley was well known for his book Roots,...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 02/28/2009
DNA tests have proved that Alex Haley – the late black American author whose book Roots traced his family origins from the slave plantations of the U.S. back to Africa and helped transform the self-image of millions of black Americans – was also directly descended from a Scottish paternal bloodline. The findings came after a sample of DNA from Chris Haley (pictured), Mr. Haley's nephew,...
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Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
This is a feature where I look back at some of the google searches, as compiled by Google, that lead people to my web site. Think of it as an Alex Haley's Roots for the digital age, because it would crack my shit up."i want my neighbor to molest me" (Mr. Rogers! No!)"jason lisle" creation "batshit crazy" (Wow. My entire website summed up, just like that.)"win ben...
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 02/05/2009
During Valentine’s week in 1993, I had the pleasure to watch the 3 part mini-series adaptation of the novel Alex Haley’s Queen. Although, I was merely 11 year-old at the time, the impact of this film was profound and still resonates with me today. Set against the back drop of the pre-civil war south, [...]
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Over 800 children from Alex Haley and Wendell Smith elementary schools got quite a thrill this week by helping artist Daniel Dancer create a "living portrait" of President-Elect Barack Obama . Dancer created an image of Obama on a playground at Alex Haley Elementary and incorporated the students to make up Obama's hair and suit. The catch? Because of the size of the portrait, it can only...
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BrowserMetrics (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." Alex Haley
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