ROOTS at the White House

ROOTS at the White House

The White House hosted a day-long exploration of how we find our American stories along with a screening of History Channel’s “Roots”.

The cast and producers from HISTORY’s event series “Roots” – including Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker, Tony Award® winner Anika Noni Rose, Malachi Kirby, Co-Executive Producer and original Kunta Kunte LeVar Burton, Executive Producers Will Packer and Mark Wolper and Nancy Dubuc, President and Chief Executive Officer, A+E Networks.
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Video: ROOTS- LeVar Burton & Valerie Jarrett at the White House

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Remembering the original “ROOTS” 1977

“Roots”: 37 years ago the finale episode aired on American television – January 30, 1977