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Adrian Grenier Explores His Latin Heritage

Posted 05.20.2012

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Every week, Henry Louis Gates has investigated what it means to have a range of genealogical history including European and African heritage. This wee...

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John Legend Finds His Roots

Posted 05.12.2012

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Henry Louis Gates has unearthed the family origins of many famous faces, from media legend Barbara Walters, to domestic diva Martha Stewart and even f...

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WATCH: Martha Stewart Finds Her Roots

Posted 05.06.2012

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Every week, celebrities make fascinating discoveries about their family history with the help of Henry Louis Gates Jr. On his PBS series "Finding Your...

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Skip Gates Helps Samuel L. Jackson Find His Roots

Posted 04.29.2012

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Every week, The Huffington Post Black Voices tells you what Henry Louis Gates has planned on his show "Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr." ...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps Robert Downey Jr. Find His Roots

Posted 04.22.2012

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped celebrities uncover fascinating aspects of their ancestry, oftentimes discovering things they never knew before. This...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps 3 Religious Leaders Find Their Roots

Posted 04.15.2012

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This season on his PBS series, "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.," Henry Louis Gates has already helped media legend, Barbara Walters, di...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps Kevin Bacon Find His Roots

Posted 04.09.2012

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Last week, we told you about how renowned Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., helped media legend Barbara Walters uncover aspects of her family ...

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Reflections on Trayvon Martin and Racism in New York in the 1980s

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 04.03.2012

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I have never forgotten that period of time and hoped that it had faded, that our nation had changed.

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WATCH: Henry Louis Gates Helps Barbara Walters Find Her Roots

Posted 04.02.2012

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Renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped a number of celebrities discover integral aspects of their family origins, now he's taking...

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Gates' 'Finding Your Roots' Debuts New Season

The Washington Post | Posted 03.25.2012

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It wasn't a question of whether his ancestors had been slaves. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a son of the Old South and one of the country's leading civil ...

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Diploma Of Harvard's First Black Alum Discovered In Condemned Chicago House

Posted 03.15.2012

An abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon, on Chicago's South Side, was the unlikely hiding place for an important piece of black history -- the papers...

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Four Months of Celebrity Roots on Air in 2012

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 03.10.2012

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For genealogy buffs and those who just can't get enough of celebrities, there's plenty of cause to celebrate in 2012 as there will be four solid months of famous roots on air.

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New Book By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Looks At African-American Icons

www.counterpunch.org | Posted 02.19.2012

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Considering the cynicism many of us feel about the current state of American education, at least with the curriculum there is one vast improvement fro...

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Bill Gates: Education Can Be Reformed Before Poverty Is Eliminated

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 09.27.2011

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BOSTON — Microsoft founder Bill Gates told the National Urban League on Thursday that a child's success should not depend on the race or income ...

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6 Degrees of Separation: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Are Cousins

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 09.17.2011

Kyra Sedgwick describes the discovery that she and her husband Kevin Bacon are 10th cousins once-removed as "a little upsetting," but it shouldn't be. Here's why.

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The Educational Crisis of Young Men of Color

Gaston Caperton | Posted 08.20.2011

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There is an education crisis facing young men of color. It's not on the front page of the newspaper, but it's out there, and if we fail to address this crisis together, the education level of the entire American workforce will decline for the first time in our history.

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Genealogy on TV

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's no question that 2010 was a banner year for roots lovers, but indications are that it's only going to get better.

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Harriet Wilson's Sunday School

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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The author of the first novel published by a black woman in the U.S. was also a leader of the Spiritualist movement that sought guidance from the dead.

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The Black Magi And Other Black Figures In European Christmas Art

theroot.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the centuries, European artists depicted a variety of religious figures as black, most notably one of the Three Kings, or Magi, bearing gifts for...

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Henry Louis Gates Interviews Isabel Wilkerson About Her Book On America's Great Migration (VIDEO)

TheRoot.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Isabel Wilkerson spent 10 years and interviewed more than 1,500 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration,...

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Faces of America: The Yamaguchi Story -- How an Immigrant Farmer Paved the Way for Success

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tatsuichi Yamaguchi did not have the option to do anything else with his life -- all he knew was farming. But he refused to be broken by his experience, and he paved the way for his children's and his grandchildren's success.

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Faces of America: Mehmet Oz and the Immigrant Story Pedigree

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mustafa Oz arrived in Cleveland in June 1955, unable to speak English and without a friend or family member to guide him. Like most immigrants, his integration relied on the distinctly American magnanimity of strangers.

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Faces of America: The True Dichotomy of Eva Longoria

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is the curious relation among the histories of cultures, families, and individuals that makes the assembly of our virtual families so endlessly fascinating. Here, we examine Eva Longoria.

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A Teachable Moment

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 05.25.2011

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From Tom Vilsack's press conference yesterday: I've learned a lot of lessons from this experience in the last couple of days. And one of the les...

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Henry Louis Gates Arrest 'Avoidable,' Report Says

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS and MARK PRATT | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A black Harvard scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him last July after a confrontation outside his home both ...

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