Henry Louis Gates Jr. of 'Finding Your Roots' helps PBS bring something new with 'GOSPEL,' a series that dives into the influential genre.

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NEW YORK (AP) — PBS’ popular “Finding Your Roots” series, temporarily shelved after an episode omitted references to the slaveholding past of Ben Affleck’s ancestor at the actor’s request, will return to public television for its third season in January The show has hired a new fact-checker and two new genealogists as part of its […]

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — When Nas became the first rapper invited to trace his family tree through the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” he welcomed the opportunity. But it hit him hard when he saw 1859 documentation of an ancestor being sold as a slave, he said during a panel discussion Wednesday. “First I […]