With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves A Tennessee school district has banned Roots , the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression. Continue reading...

A Knox County school board committee read a single passage from Alex Haley’s Roots and did exactly what Tennessee law told them to do. They banned it, voting to pull it from school libraries. Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk reversed the ban May 26, returning the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to shelves at seven […]

Medicare for All, AIPAC and AI were among the hot topics in a debate between Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed and Mallory McMorrow.

An East Tennessee school district has reversed its ban on Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family' after weeks of community backlash and board member pressure.

When author Alex Haley’s “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” became part of the American psyche in 1976, first as a best selling book, then as a beloved television miniseries, it sent scores of Black Americans in search of their own family’s genealogical history. “Roots” also changed the conversation about race in America, serving […]

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm is endorsing Haley Stevens for US Senate in Michigan's competitive Democratic primary, calling her the best candidate to beat Republican Mike Rogers this fall.