Kunta Kinte Alex Haley Memorial Annapolis Maryland
Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial
TO COMMEMORATE THE ARRIVAL IN THIS HARBOR OF KUNTA KINTE IMMORTALIZED BY ALEX HALEY IN ROOTS AND ALL OTHERS WHO CAME TO THESE SHORES IN BONDAGE AND WHO BY THEIR TOIL, CHARACTER, AND CEASELESS STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM HAVE HELPED TO MAKE THESE UNITED STATES
A LUTA CONTINUA!
SPONSORS V.O.T.E
ANNE ARUNDEL COALITION OF TENANTS
DEDICATED
STEPTEMBER 21, 1981
An educational, inspirational and healing place revealing universal messages of Alex Haley's Roots saga
Alex Haley, Family and Heritage
Alex Haley, in his family's story, Roots, shows how the strength of the human spirit to overcome challenges comes from maintaining strong family connections and pride in one's heritage. Here Alex shares heritage stories with children of diverse ethnic groups.
Take time to share heritage stories with children so they can pass on their proud heritage and learn respect for the heritage of others.
Kunta Kinte was kidnapped from Juffure, Gambia in 1750 from a Mandinka Village
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Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial Introduction
Welcome to the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial. Promoted and maintained by the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation of Annapolis, Maryland.
Alex Haley Sculpture Group and Memorial Dedication Bollard
The Alex Haley Sculpture at the Memorial was designed to embrace the waters of the Chesapeake Bay...Touching distant shores and connecting us to a broader world!
Bates High School, Center of Excellence: Memories of Bates Teachers A Legacy Documentary
The Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley Foundation announces the creation and debut of the documentary film, Bates, Center of Excellence: Memories of Bates Teachers. This documentary was created by the Foundation as part of its ongoing effort to promote legacy endeavors in the city of Annapolis and throughout Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
The mission of the Foundation is to spread Alex Haley’s vision of a world that celebrates ethnic diversity through genealogy research, as well as through educational and cultural programs. The Memories of Bates Teachers documentary represents one of many efforts the Foundation has undertaken related to endeavors that acknowledge and celebrate the contribution of African Americans in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County.
The documentary is based on the reflections and recounting of memories from interviews of 15 former teachers of Bates High School. It tells the story of Bates from the perspective of educators who had firsthand experiences in teaching at this secondary school prior to the integration of public schools in Anne Arundel County, Maryland in the mid-1960s.
During the long period of segregated schools in the County, Bates was historically significant. From its opening in 1933 to its closing 1966, Bates was the only high school for African Americans in the County. As the only secondary school for African Americans, it served students in grades 7-12. In addition to serving all secondary African American students in the city of Annapolis, students as far north as Brooklyn Park and as far south as Friendship went to Bates. The school operated with a massive transportation system since between 75 to 85 percent of the students were bussed. Consequently, given its large enrollment size, Bates operated with many different satellite or expansion sites throughout the downtown Annapolis area.
As the teachers explained in their interviews, “Bates was the hub for the African American community”. Moreover, “Bates was a powerhouse”.
To attend one of the five public screenings of the film during the month of February 2018, participants must register in advance. The viewing events are free of charge to the public. However, due to the limited viewing locations, seating is limited for each showing; therefore, please register early, by accessing either of these location sources:
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This documentary film is supported through individual contributions to the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, as well as from grant funds provided from the city of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County Cultural Arts ,and the Four Rivers Heritage Area.
Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation Resource Center
Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation Resource Center
Compass Rose and Information Kiosk
The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial Compass Rose and Information Kiosk are located at the City Market House. They were both installed during the final phase of the Memorial's development in the Spring of 2002.
Kunta Kinteh Village Fundraiser - Annapolis
Talentkey Media was invited to cover a charity luncheon in support of improvements to the water supply in Kunta Kinteh's village in the Gambia. The event was held at the historic Paca House in downtown Annapolis on 06/25/14.
Full Circle
Returning to the US, Lynette had an opportunity to visit the historical site in Annapolis, Maryland where Kunta Kinte and countless others had been sold into slavery.
Story Wall and Leonard A. Blackshear Walk
The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial Story Wall is located at the far end of the Leonard A. Blackshear Walk. Leonard A. Blackshear was the leading advocate for the Memorial, dedicating over 25 years of his life to bringing the vision of the Memorial to reality.
National Cyptologic Museum, Annapolis, MD - Travel Thru History
Here's an inside look at the National Cryptologic Museum, just outside of the NSA campus in Annapolis Junction. The museum houses a working German Enigma machine as well as a Purple Analog machine. This segment first appeared on our Baltimore episode. For more information visit or
Cohen General Election Kickoff 26 Sept 2009
Josh Cohen kicks off the General Election campaign on September 26, 2009 at the Kunta Kinte / Alex Haley Memorial at City Dock. Cohen is introduced by fellow Annapolis native Jenelle Murph, board member of the Mt. Olive Community Development Corporation.
A day earlier, the Annapolis Democratic Central Committee had unanimously appointed Josh to be the party's nominee after the winner of the Primary Election, Zina Pierre, declined the nomination.
Maryland World War II Memorial 6/25/2017
This is a video I put together of the Maryland World War II Memorial in Annapolis, Maryland on 6/25/2017
Hundreds Protest, Rally For Change In Annapolis
The State Capitol building becomes the back-drop to one of the largest demonstrations in recent memory.
Annapolis Ghost Tour
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Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Alex Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. It was adapted by ABC as a TV mini-series of the same name and aired in 1977 to a record-breaking 130 million viewers. It had great influence on awareness in the United States of African-American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.
Haley had previously written The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.
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Annapolis, Maryland - Sailing4FNF Yacht Crew taking a walking tour of Annapolis, PART TRE
The continuing journeys of Sailing4FNF aboard S/V Argo. The Sailing4FNF Yacht crew taking a walking tour of Annapolis, Maryland before the start of the 2011 Governor's Cup Race.
#Annapolis Confederate Statue Of Supreme Court Justice Robert Taney TAKEN DOWN In #Maryland [VIDEO]
#Annapolis Confederate Statue Of Supreme Court Justice Robert Taney TAKEN DOWN In #Maryland [VIDEO]
Work crew begins removing Taney statue from Maryland State House grounds. Workers began dismantling a 145-year-old statue of Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney outside the Maryland State House just after midnight Friday, the latest ripple effect from last weekend’s deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said his revulsion at what happened in Charlottesville — at a demonstration purportedly in defense of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — prompted him to change his mind about the Taney statute and push for its removal, an act long sought by civil rights groups.
The State House Trust board voted Wednesday to remove the memorial to Taney, a former chief justice who defended slavery in the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Taney’s ruling said blacks, whether slaves or not, could never be U.S. citizens.
Police closed off the streets around the state house complex on Thursday evening. A little after midnight Friday, a crane and two flatbed trucks arrived. Workers soon began the process of removing the memorial from its base. A different statue of Taney, along with three Confederate memorials, was taken down under cover of darkness in Baltimore early Wednesday.
President Trump, who has made conflicting statements about who is to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, on Thursday decried the removal of monuments, saying the “history and culture of our great country” was “being ripped apart.”
The removal of the Taney statue in Annapolis came just hours after Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) lashed out at Hogan (R) for not holding a public hearing on the issue before the State House Trust board vote.
In a letter to the governor, Miller, defended Taney’s legacy and long record of government service, and said the memorial should stay put to help educate people about the past. He also criticized Hogan for pushing a vote on the matter “outside the public eye.”
Hogan is chair of the State House Trust board, which voted by email — its traditional method — to remove the Taney statue and make plans for storing or relocating it. Miller, House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) and Maryland Historical Trust chair Charles L. Edson are also members of the panel. Hogan spokesman Doug Mayer said Thursday that Miller is “completely within his right to continue defending Roger Taney,” but added that Hogan and the Senate president would have to “agree to disagree.” Busch called for removal of the statue on Monday, saying that “the time has come for Taney to come down.” A spokeswoman for his office said the speaker’s decision was influenced by Saturday’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville and the racially motivated 2015 mass shooting at an African American church in Charleston, S.C.
Hogan announced on Tuesday that he would take action to remove the monument, saying it’s “the right thing to do.”
Busch, Edson and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford (R), who serves as Hogan’s designee on the board, voted in favor of taking down the monument. Miller did not vote.
The Senate president said in his letter that voting by email was “just plain wrong” and that the matter was “of such consequence that the transparency of a public meeting and public conversation should have occurred.”Miller, who is known to be an avid reader of history, credited the former chief justice for “anti-slavery words and actions,” saying that “unlike George Washington who freed his slaves upon his death, Taney freed his slaves early in his life.”
The state placed the statue of Taney on the State House lawn in 1872. Since then, it has added interpretive plaques explaining the controversy over his divisive Dred Scott opinion and erected a statue of Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native who was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court justice, on the opposite side of the capital building. The trust also agreed last year to erect statues in the State House honoring abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
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BLACK HISTORY ALEX HALEY
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992)[1] was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.[3]
African American History in Maryland, Part 1
Louis S. Diggs, historian and author of It all started on Winters Lane: A history of the Black community in Catonsville, Maryland (Uptown Press, 1995), discusses the history of African Americans in Baltimore and Maryland.