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"Finding Your Roots" reveals surprising and sometimes troubling ancestral histories! Join us as we look at ten celebrities ...
I sometimes watch the PBS show Finding Your Roots, where Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents guests information about their ancestry. With researchers combing through dusty records and ...
As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., best known for helping people and celebrities uncover ancestral connections on his long-running PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” has made headlines again with a viral family ...
Finding the Pope’s Roots Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has several star studded branches on his family tree. The New York Times took deep dive into ...
Certainly, the fans of “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS show I have hosted for 13 years, wanted to know. My inbox was flooded with emails asking us to trace the new pope’s ancestry.
Finding Your Roots. Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 7 Promo. Preview: Season 4 | 30s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Carmelo Anthony, Ana Navarro and Lupita Nyong’o join Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.
Jeri Mills' great, great, great grandmother was the daughter of one of the first enslaved people forced to help build Monte Verdi.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. joins Morning Joe to discuss Season 11 of 'Finding Your Roots'. Season 11 features appearances by ...
Inside Roots Bookstore & Market on Liberty City’s historic 15th Avenue, sunlight filters through greenery, and mirrors line ...