Following the decision last week by a Tennessee school district to ban Alex Haley's globally renowned book “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” family and friends of the late Pulitzer ...

"Roots" by Alex Haley, a globally-renowned book about Black history and an official TN state book, has been banned in Knox County Schools.

"Roots," the renowned 1976 novel by Alex Haley that spurred a broad awakening in African American genealogy and history, has been banned by Knox County Schools. "Roots" was among the first widely read ...

UPDATE: Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jon Rysewyk announced Tuesday that the book will return to KCS school libraries immediately. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Knox County Schools has banned ...

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 ...