Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premieres nationally Sundays, March 25 – May 20 at 8 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).

The family histories of well-known Americans are unearthed by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The opener profiles two children of New Orleans, Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis. duration: 60 min

Sunday, March 25  WFYI 09:00 pm - 

The family histories of Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) are investigated. Booker discovers he has a white great-grandfather, and Lewis learns of the aspirations of some of his enslaved ancestors.

duration: 60 min