Finding Your Roots

Actor Sterling K. Brown was overwhelmed to the point of tears when he found out key details about his lineage on a recent episode of Henry Louis Gates’ show “Finding Your Roots.” Before Gates dove into Brown’s deep past, the Emmy-Award winning actor had to come to terms with the loss of his most recent ancestor, his father. The […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The celebrity ancestry show “Finding Your Roots” has a message to counter divisive political rhetoric, said its host, educator Henry Louis Gates Jr. The PBS series demonstrates that “we’re all descended from immigrants,” whether they came to America willingly or as slaves, and all share a common origin, Gates told […]

Finding Your Roots hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks into the background and heritage of various celebrities so that they can find out who they are. Black Like Me will be the title of the next episode that looks into the lives of Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis Lee and Suzanne Malveaux. “If there’s 42 million Black […]

Before the Black Panther documentary airs on PBS Tuesday at 9 p.m., a new episode of Finding Your Roots featuring Sean “Diddy” Combs and LL Cool J premieres at 8, with both rappers discovering they have ancestors who were living in the U.S. before the Emancipation Proclamation — but were not enslaved. Dr. Henry Louis Gates talks about […]

After its little Ben Affleck hiccup, the PBS series Finding Your Roots is back in January with an all new third season of celebs tracing their family trees, aided by host Henry Louis Gates Jr. The series had to take a time out after Season 2, when news broke that Affleck tried to keep producers from revealing the discovery of his […]

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 […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS put its “Finding Your Roots” series on hold Wednesday after determining an episode that omitted references to Ben Affleck’s ancestor as a slave owner violated its standards. The public television service said it is postponing the show’s third season and delaying a commitment to a fourth year until it is […]

Ben Affleck has issued an apology for hiding information about his ancestors on the PBS show Finding Your Roots. The actor took to his Facebook page to discuss why…

Ah, Ben Affleck. Hollywood Golden Boy. Two-time Oscar winner. One half of the phenomenon that was “Bennifer.” And the descendent of a slave-owning family member? Yikes! Affleck’s apparent…

In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave owning past be scrubbed from…

In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave owning past be scrubbed from…

Rapper Nas makes history on Tuesday’s episode of Finding Your Roots. “We introduced Nas to five generations – we’ve never been able to do this before for any African American – five generations of his enslaved ancestors,” host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., told the Television Critics Association in July. “And we showed him an extremely […]