Questlove recently spoke with Common and Pete Rock on his Questlove Supreme podcast, and the conversation yielded something The Roots fans have been waiting for since the group’s latest album, 2014’s ...
A common ancestor linked two of the 1977 miniseries most unlikely players Nearly 130 million people turned into ABC’s 1977 miniseries Roots during it’s original airing – establishing it as one of the ...
“Roots” premiered on ABC in January 1977, just a few months after Alex Haley published the historical novel upon which it was based -- a phenomenon on the back of a phenomenon. Now remade for the flat ...
People tend to get stuck on the numbers, and rightly so, they’re impressive. When the original Roots aired in 1977, nearly 85 percent of American homes watched some part of the eight-night event on ...