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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 ...

An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows At Elyse Goldman’s wedding, a tallit prayer shawl was placed around the couple by her father, Image 2 shows A two-tiered white wedding cake ...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC (FEBRUARY 17, 2026)—A free public screening of the PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” episode featuring NBA star and Winston-Salem native Chris Paul will be held Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. in ...

This story was updated to add new information. West Des Moines police found a teenager missing since last week. Scarlett McBee, 13, was last seen around 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 in the 2200 block of ...

The Trump administration repealed the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, "endangerment finding." The Obama-era policy underpinned the federal government's ability to regulate greenhouse gas ...

The Trump administration plans to repeal the landmark 2009 legal finding that climate change poses a threat to the public this week, press secretary Karoline Leavitt ...

Google is simplifying the process for taking nonconsensual explicit images out of results, too. Google is simplifying the process for taking nonconsensual explicit images out of results, too. is a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Although Sara Haines is regularly spotted on ABC’s daytime talk show The View, fans can catch her as she joins Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the upcoming episode of Finding ...

Playwright Tracy Letts is exploring the relationship between his family background and his theater work in an exclusive clip from Finding Your Roots. In a new episode of the PBS genealogy series, the ...

Oklahoma actor and playwright Tracy Letts, who was in the first-season cast of the shot-in-Tulsa series “The Lowdown,” will learn about his ancestors in an upcoming episode of “Finding Your Rights” ...