article_snippet.sent: A&E, Lifetime and History (formerly the History Channel) announced Thursday that The A&E networks would simulcast a remake of the saga of Kunta Kinte, an African who was captured, shipped to America and sold into slavery to work on a Virginia plantation.
article_snippet.sent: LeVar Burton, who portrayed Kinte in the original, will co-executive produce
article_snippet.sent: A press release describes the new version as "original" and "contemporary" and will draw more from Alex Haley's classic novel,
article_snippet.sent: Audiences will once again feel the impact of Kunta Kinte's indomitable spirit.
article_snippet.sent: Executive producer Mark Wolper, son of the original's producer David L. Wolper, added, "Kunta Kinte began telling "Kunta Kinte story over 200 years ago and his story went through "Kunta Kinte family lineage, to Alex Haley, to my father, and now the mantle rests with "Kunta Kinte.
article_snippet.sent: Like "Kunta Kinte fought to tell his story over and over again, so must we.