Question: LeVar Burton plays Kunta Kinte in a miniseries based on a novel by what authro?

Context articles: Dummy (1979 film)
Lord Ligonier (slave ship)
Kunta Kinte (album)
Toby Slater
Roots: The Gift
Roots (1977 miniseries)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
LeVar Burton
Miracle's Boys
Kunta Kinte

Dummy is a 1979 American television film starring LeVar Burton as Donald Lang and Paul Sorvino as Lowell Meyers, Lang's attorney.
 Based on Ernest Tidyman's nonfiction book of the same name, the film dramatizes the life of Lang, an African-American deaf man from Chicago who was acquitted of the murders of two prostitutes.
The Lord Ligonier was an 18th-century British slave ship built in New England that unloaded slaves in Annapolis, Maryland in 1767.
 The ship was made famous by Alex Haley's novel, "", in which it brought his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, from the Gambia to the colonial United States.
Kunta Kinte is a solo album released by rapper, Keak da Sneak.
 The album is essentially a re-release of 2005's Town Business with a few extra tracks.
Tobias "Toby" Slater (born 14 August 1979) is an English singer, songwriter and musician best known as the lead singer for the 1990s pop band Catch, who released two singles in the UK and an album in Indonesia.
 Slater has also recorded and released music as a solo artist and with the band Kunta Kinte, who were renamed Tough Love.
Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film.
 It is the third installment of the "Roots" series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte.
 The film premiered on ABC on 11 December 1988, with AT&T as the sole national sponsor for the broadcast.
 LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. reprise their respective roles of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler.
 The film takes place between the second and third episodes of the original "Roots" miniseries.
Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel "".
 The series first aired on ABC-TV in January 1977.
 "Roots" received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine.
 It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award.
 It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which still holds a record as the third highest rated episode for any type of television series, and the second most watched overall series finale in U.S. television history.
 It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million.
 The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976.
 It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and later follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley.
 The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, "Roots" (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States, and it is considered to be one of the most important U.S. works of the 20th century.
 The novel spent months on "The New York Times" Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in the top spot on that list.
 The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second miniseries, "" (1979).
 It stimulated interest in genealogy and appreciation for African-American history.
Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author.
 He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series "Reading Rainbow", Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in "" and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries "Roots".
 He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of "Star Trek", among other programs.
Miracle's Boys is an American drama television series, originally airing on The N.
 It began production in June 2004 and premiered on February 18, 2005.
 It is based on the novel of the same name by Jacqueline Woodson.
 The series was directed by Neema Barnette, LeVar Burton, Ernest R. Dickerson, Bill Duke, and Spike Lee.
 It was filmed on-site in Harlem, New York and includes a theme song by rapper Nas.
 TeenNick aired reruns of "Miracle's Boys" throughout 2012.
Kunta Kinte ( 1750 – 1822; ) is a character in the novel "" by American author Alex Haley.
 Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822.
 Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in "Roots" was a mixture of fact and fiction.
 The extent to which Kunta Kinte is based on fact is disputed.