As you read this column, I want you to imagine that we have met at a local bar, and I am back to drinking the hard stuff, Coke with caffeine. I pull close to you and talk in a wavering whisper.

We seem to need a meaningful heritage almost as much as we need food. We do best when our lives are rooted in something greater than ourselves, something that gives us comfort, confidence, inspiration ...

A+E Networks has announced additional casting for “Roots,” its epic miniseries based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel as well as other researched material. The production, which hails from A+E Studios in ...

*Forest Whitaker, Anika Noni Rose and Derek Luke are among the actors newly cast in A&E Networks’ remake of “Roots,” the network announced Wednesday. Whitaker will play Fiddler, a slave who risks his ...

And the Oscar winners go to... A&E's Roots revival. Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Anna Paquin (The Piano, True Blood) are among the A-listers who've boarded the four-night, ...