Crocodile Parable
Grandma's basically do two main things in literature: cook killer grub and teach their grandkids lessons. Grandmother Yaisa's cooking skills aren't really noted in Roots, but she does tells Kunta a...
Chickens
If his name didn't make it obvious, Chicken George loves chickens. He loves them like Han loves the Millennium Falcon. Like Michael Bay loves explosions. Like Kel loves orange soda.In other words:...
Faction
When he published Roots, Alex Haley coined a new term to describe his approach: "faction." You know—fact plus fiction. Pretty straightforward, right? The Question of AccuracyHere's how he explain...
Music
Before the iPhone, before the Android, and even before that wonderful, early-2000's hunk of junk known as the Razr, it was pretty hard to communicate with other people. Really hard, in fact. In Roo...