Topic: alex haley

A display of banned books (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Tennessee tried to whitewash "Roots"

Chauncey DeVega
Malcolm X (Getty Images)

Malcolm X's work "coming home to Harlem"

Rachel Leah
Hugh Hefner, Harold Washington and Sidney Poitier (AP/Suzanne Hanover)

Hugh Hefner's real legacy is racial

Rachel Leah
Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker and Emayatzy Corinealdi in "Roots" (The History Channel)

Fact, fiction and "Roots"

Andrew O'Hehir
Isaiah Washington (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Alondra Nelson