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New Finding Your Roots Episodes Return This Fall

New Finding Your Roots Episodes Return This Fall

New episodes of Finding Your Roots are back Tuesday, October 13, at 8/7c! Check out the guests who will be joining Henry Louis Gates, Jr. next to uncover their family histories.
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Finding Your Roots

About Finding Your Roots

For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.

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Puritans and Pioneers - S4 E3

Actors Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and William H. Macy trace their nonconformist ancestors through American conflicts - the Civil War and the American Revolution, all the way back to the Puritan establishment.

  • Friday July 30, 2021 7:00 pm ET on KET2
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Freedom Tales - S5 E5

Actor S. Epatha Merkerson and athlete and television personality Michael Strahan discover stories that challenge assumptions about Black history.

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The Vanguard - S4 E4

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author and activist Janet Mock see their basic assumptions about their families challenged, placing their ancestors into the greater context of Black history.

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Hard Times - S5 E8

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family stories of filmmaker Michael Moore and actors Laura Linney and Chloe Sevigny - three people whose distant ancestors overcame great hardships in ways that resonate with their lives today.

  • Tuesday August 10, 2021 8:00 pm ET on KET
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Homecomings - S6 E3

Sterling K. Brown, Sasheer Zamata, and Jon Batiste discover the places their ancestors called home, providing new insight into the people and places that made them who they are today.

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Unfamiliar Kin - S4 E2

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The Eye of the Beholder - S5 E9

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Hard Times - S5 E8

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Children of the Revolution - S4 E7

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No Laughing Matter - S5 E7

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The Impression - S4 E1

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Black Like Me - S4 E6

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The New World
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Write My Name in the Book of Life
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