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Lena Dunham Uncovers Her Grandparents' Love Story in Finding Your Roots Exclusive Clip
In its landmark 10th season, Finding Your Roots has shown no signs of slowing down, hosting all manner of Hollywood...
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Will Finding Your Roots Explain Bob Odenkirk's Lack of an Emmy for Better Call Saul?
Like LeVar Burton, Wes Studi, and many other actors before him, Bob Odenkirk turned to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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TV Today: Hasan Minhaj Returns to Netflix, Fat Joe Hosts the BET Hip Hop Awards
Two years after his weekly series Patriot Act was canceled by Netflix, Hasan Minhaj returns to the streamer with a...
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Posted Tuesday 2/01/22 at 1:31PM EST
HBO annoucnes Frederick Douglass documentary
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, premiering Feb.
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Posted Wednesday 2/17/21 at 4:30AM EST
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Church is a celebratory tour of American history
Gates' four-hour PBS documentary The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, airing Tuesday and Wednesday, "may...
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Posted Sunday 2/23/20 at 9:44PM EST
Johni Cerny, the chief genealogist for PBS' Finding Your Roots, dies at 76
Cerny helped everybody from Oprah Winfrey to Bernie Sanders learn about their roots on the PBS series.
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Posted Wednesday 1/29/20 at 3:12AM EST
Henry Louis Gates Jr. jokes about doing a Watchmen-inspired episode of Finding Your Roots
Gates' PBS genealogy series had a big fan in Damon Lindelof, who offered him a cameo role that the PBS...
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Posted Saturday 11/09/19 at 2:01AM EST
Questlove's appearance on Finding Your Roots had a big impact on Watchmen
Damon Lindelof is obsessed with the PBS celebrity genealogy series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Posted Tuesday 4/09/19 at 8:33PM EDT
PBS' Reconstruction: America After The Civil War feels repetitive, which perhaps is the point
The four-hour Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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PBS orders documentaries on Woodstock and Reconstruction, plus Ken Burns' The Gene
PBS announced it will mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival next year with a two-hour...
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Larry David was flabbergasted to learn he descended from a Confederate slave owner
“I hope no slaves show up on this,” the Curb Your Enthusiasm star said at the start of his PBS...