It joins a list of 118 other books banned in the district.

The Knox County school district first deemed “Roots” to be in violation of the state’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act. The ...

Following the decision to ban the globally renowned book “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” by Alex Haley in Knox County Schools last week, family and friends of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

A sculpture of Haley stands in Morningside Park. He donated his personal papers, including drafts of "Roots," to the ...

The landmark 1976 novel joins dozens of books by Black authors facing increased scrutiny and removal in schools nationwide. A Tennessee school district has banned “Roots,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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 ...

In Alabama, maybe, or understood, perhaps, in Mississippi, but Knox County, Tennessee? Inconceivable. I was stunned to learn that the county near where I grew up and in which I lived three times ‒ the ...

"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 ...