Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? “We felt the other did so well,” Alex Haley said, “that we should just let it hang there.” But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family’s tales as they came to his memory…
Roots rocked the cultural landscape in the late ’70s, creating a new wave of awareness of black history. That wave opened the door for its sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, even more of a star-studded event than the original, with stars like Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, and James Earl Jones eager to partake in the tale. The sequel follows the rest of the saga of the family of author Alex Haley, from where Roots ended at the Civil War, up to the 1970s when Haley was researching and writing his earth-shattering family story.
Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this landmark continuation of a landmark event – with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts – “is in many respects a superior achievement,” Newsweek said in comparing this to Roots. Twenty-five years later, it has lost none of its dramatic and emotional power to make us confront history and examine ourselves. One man’s family remains everyone’s!
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