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(AUDIO ONLY PODCAST) Alex Haley’s book Roots: The Saga of an American Family was published on August 17, 1976. In this episode of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, host Lisa Louise Cooke welcomes historian (and nephew of Alex Haley) Chris Haley to discuss the remarkable impact of Haley’s seminal work, “Roots,” nearly 50 years after its release. As the nephew of the author and a descendant of Kunta Kinte, Chris shares his insights into how the book and series impacted his own family, and the lasting influence of this groundbreaking work on genealogy, and the upcoming celebratory Kunta Kinte Tour.
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