A Tennessee school district has made the decision to ban Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family over one paragraph. The district confirmed the decision to Knox News on Thursday (May 14).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley's book "Roots" is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The globally-renowned 1976 book “Roots” by Alex Haley, which spurred a broad awakening in African American genealogy and history ...

Knox County Schools in Tennessee is removing Alex Haley's 1976 novel "Roots" from its libraries. The removal is part of a larger ban that now includes 119 titles across the school district. Author ...

The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The ...

A few months ago I found a paperback copy of George Orwell’s “1984” on a city bus. I opened it and found myself reading a familiar passage about the protagonist Winston Smith’s cubicle and the slot in ...

A Tennessee school district has banned “Roots,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex Haley that helped reshape how Americans understand the history of slavery and African American genealogy. Knox ...

"Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" By Lucas L. Johnson II (Broadleaf Books, 221 pages, $25.99) Alex Haley's "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" was published in ...

"Find the good and praise it," the best-known saying attributed to world-renowned author Alex Haley, was the theme of the night at the Museum of Appalachia's Heroes of Southern Appalachia Award ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously removed other books from ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Knox County Schools has banned the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” from all school library shelves under Tennessee’s Age-Appropriate ...