Organizers shared that the Grammy-award-winning rapper, record executive, producer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, along with Grammy-award-winning multi-platinum hip-hop luminaries The Roots, ...

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Skip” in Piedmont, West Virginia—turned a childhood encounter with racist medical neglect into a lifelong drive to prove ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of director Spike Lee and actor Kristin Chenoweth. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the roots of filmmaker Spike Lee and Broadway superstar Kristin Chenoweth, ...

The acclaimed series returns with Professor Gates exploring the mysteries, surprises and revelations hidden in the family trees of popular figures. Kristin Chenoweth and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on ...

In this exclusive clip from Tuesday's episode of Finding Your Roots, Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth discovers some shared qualities with a 19th-century Texas relative. Chenoweth learns that her ...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces musicians Flea and Lizzo to their inspiring ancestors. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two celebrated musicians: Lizzo and Flea, tracing lineages that run ...

Hasan discovers the possibility that he may have royal roots in Northern India. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of actor Lizzy Caplan and comedian Hasan Minhaj moving from shtetls in Eastern ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of basketball superstars Brittney Griner and Chris Paul—revealing that they are not the first extraordinary people in their family trees. Telling stories that ...