But one of the most touching tributes of all came from LeVar Burton, Amos’ co-star in the hit 1977 mini-series “Roots.” Burton played a young Kunta Kinte, the son of an African warrior who is captured ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- A honeybee’s whim lead to the founding of a storied Medina company that makes the yummy-smelling, elegant and calming candles we love to light in our homes. It was the arrival of a ...

John Amos, the prolific actor known for his work in the sitcoms “Good Times” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the movie “Coming to America” and the miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. Amos’ ...

If it weren’t for a strange twist of fate, John Root might be making jewelry instead of candles. His great-grandfather, Amos Ives Root, a jewelry manufacturer, was toiling by the window of his shop on ...

Emma Amos may not have enjoyed the same level of name recognition of some of her contemporaries in the art world; but as an artist addressing sexism and racism in her work years before the term ...

Amos Root was a great economic development director, even though there was no such title in the 1800s. He made Jackson into a "Cool City." Back then, you'd call it the "Central City." Root held the ...