Join The Discovery Of Ancestral Stories
For more than a decade, Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all. In each episode of FINDING YOUR ROOTS on PBS, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. stimulates a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom and compassion.
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- Returns October 13, 2020, at 8/7c
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FINDING YOUR ROOTS reaches quality audiences nationwide. PBS Storytelling program viewers are:
more likely to own 2+ pieces of real estate [2]
politically diverse – within 5% of the national stratification [2]
more likely to be Community Influentials [2]
more likely to go to live theater [2]
more likely to regularly read financial news [2]
more likely to be in a charitable organization and 2.3x more likely to be in a civic club [2]
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HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and institution builder has authored or co-authored 24 books and created 20 documentary films, including Wonders of the African World, African American Lives and Faces of America.
He has received 55 honorary degrees and several prizes, including the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and NAACP Image Award. Professor Gates was recognized in Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997 and in Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.
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