Todays most compelling personalities discover the surprising stories buried within their own families in the sixth season of the critically acclaimed pbs series finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr. Hollywood royalty with isabella rossellini, anjelica huston, mia farrow. Jimmy kimmel, marisa tomei, and john turturro meet ancestors who. Brown, comedian sasheer zamata and musician jon batiste discover the unexpected places their ancestors once called home, providing new insight into the people and places that made them who they are today. Henry louis gates apologizes over ben affleck find your roots episode gates has apologized for not being more transparent in handling a controversial episode of the series he hosts on pbs. The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of finding your roots, the companion book to the hit pbs documentary series. In search of our fathers, tuesday, september 23, 89 pm. The legendary roots drummer, questlove, will join henry louis gates, jr. The american history, the story telling, and the surprise endings are so moving. Henry louis gates apologizes over ben affleck find your. Dyllan mcgee and peter kunhardt are executive producers.
Finding your roots with henry louis gates is soaring high this season. An accessible and engaging book, finding your roots is a veritable howto guide for readers to explore their own past. Laura linney, lisa ling, and soledad obrien discover surprising roots. Finding your roots returns october 8 at 87c on pbs and. Professor gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the worlds leading geneticists to decode our dna and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the. Guest groupings and episode descriptions episode 201. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. An awardwinning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and institution builder, gates has written or cowritten 22 books and created 18 documentary films. Finding your roots with henry louis gates jr s01 ep06 maggie gyllenhaal robert downey, jr.
Finding your roots makes researching family trees and weaving their diverse branches into powerful narratives not only fascinating and fun but. This 10part series, with renowned cultural critic and harvard scholar henry louis gates, jr. News about tomatometer a series gets an average tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. Many americans also know him as the man who was arrested for breaking into his own home and then being invited. Falls return coincides with the return to public television of my genealogy series, finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr. Epatha merkerson and musician questlove to the unexpected places where their ancestors were scattered by slavery, upending. Finding your roots with henry louis gates jr season 2. Finding your roots full episodes programs pbs socal. Pbs will bow the delayed third season of finding your roots on jan. The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of season 2 of finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr.
Famous personalities explore their ancestry on finding. Discover the surprising ancestral stories of 27 fascinating guests in season six of finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr. Download audiobooks by henry louis gates jr to your device. The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new series finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, african american lives, african american lives 2, and faces of america, gates finds new ways to, as he says, get into the dna of american culture. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. This week on his pbs series finding your roots with henry louis gates, he will delve into the genealogy of actors robert downey jr. Looking at african american history, 152008, 2011, etc. One of his most compelling ways to do so is the work he does in genealogy. A companion text to the popular pbs series, and following his similar faces of america 2010, its about finding the roots of 25 american notables of diverse ethnicity.
For more than a decade, renowned harvard scholar henry louis gates, jr. In each episode, a set of featured guests view their ancestral histories, learn connections, and discover. Parents need to know that finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr. One of the things i like about pbs use of henry louis gates, jr. Macy, three mainstays of modernday hollywood discover family legacies that predate the united states itself. Questlove to examine his southern roots on finding your. This show is a multidisciplinary work crossing over film, science, history. Professor gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections. Continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, african american lives, african american lives 2, faces of america, and the first season of finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr. Audible provides the highest quality audio and narration. Tune in this season for allnew episodes where henry louis gates, jr explores the fascinating ancestries and family mysteries for. Last night pbs aired the third episode of finding your roots with henry louis gates jr. The latest from redoubtable historian gates africanamerican researchharvard univ life upon these shores.
In black in latin america, for instance, he got to do a cultural and ethnic history of different countries, which was both interesting on its own and shed light on constructions of race in america. A 10part pbs series exploring race, culture and identity through genealogy with henry louis gates, jr. The episode revolved around investigating the guests paternal roots by tackling the challenges of discovering the original surnames of their fathers ancestral lines. Original release, march 25, 2012 20120325 present present. On dna testing and finding his own roots as host of the pbs series finding your roots, gates tells celebrities about their family history. Henry louis gates apologizes over ben affleck find your roots episode gates has apologized for not being more transparent in handling a controversial episode of. Entering into its fourth season, finding your roots with henry. Premieres march 25, 2012 this 10part series, with the renowned cultural critic and harvard scholar henry louis gates, jr. View all finding your roots with henry louis gates jr.
Pbs and wnet have launched an investigation into henry louis gates jr. Season 6 of finding your roots with henry louis gates, jr. Finding your roots at rootstech with henry louis gates jr. The second season of finding your roots with henry louis gatest jr.
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