Roots’ Cast and Creators on Brutality on TV“I would rather someone say to me, ‘I couldn’t watch that, it was too painful,’ than, ‘You didn’t do that as authentically as you could have.’”
ByStacey Wilson Hunt
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Why Roots Was So ImportantThe nearly 40 years haven’t dimmed its ability to illuminate one of the grimmest aspects of U.S. history.