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 […]
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has been helping people discover their family history for some time now. His PBS show “Finding Your Roots” featured the compelling stories of Margaret Cho, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cory Booker, Samuel L. Jackson, Branford Marsalis, Wanda Sykes, John Legend and others. On the season finale, airing this Sunday, May 20th […]
