Alex Haley’s landmark book, Roots, began in Reader’s Digest, ... when I interviewed my parents and drew up my first family tree on the very day after we buried my father’s father.

George Haley (right) is shown with his brothers Alex (center) and Julius. (Special to The Commercial/Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas) We've got roots.

Nikki Haley mourned the Father’s Day death of her dad Ajit Singh Randhawa on Sunday, calling him the “kindest, most decent man” she’s known.

Nikki Haley embraces her father Ajit Singh Randhawa during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 15, 2023.

SC Gov. Nikki Haley’s father, Ajit Randhawa, shakes hands with Rep. Grady A. Brown, D-Lee, during Haley’s 2011 inauguration ...

Nikki Haley embraces her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid on Feb. 15, 2023. LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty.

Nikki Haley posts tribute to father, who she says died on Father’s Day The former U.N. ambassador called her dad “the most decent man I’d ever known.” Ajit Singh Randhawa, a Sikh immigrant ...

Nikki Haley embraces her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, during an event to launch her presidential bid in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 15, 2023.

Alex Haley was born Aug. 11, 1921, in Ithaca, New York, although he wasn't there long, according to the biography on his website. Just six weeks after his birth, Haley's parents, Simon and Bertha ...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Sunday that her father had died. In a Father's Day post on X. Haley wrote of Ajit Singh Randhawa, "This morning I had to say goodbye to the ...

WASHINGTON — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced the death of her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, on Sunday, sharing in a message on Father's Day that he was the "smartest, sweetest ...

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley posted online announcing the death of her father on Father’s Day. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most ...