The episode shows that the struggle to become an American as long-standing and ongoing for those not lucky enough to have been born here. As a white male of Northern European descent it makes me appreciate how hard some families have to work to earn the privilege of calling themselves in ...
Finding Your Roots: With Chantel Everett, Karen Everett, River Everett, Thomas Everett. The family heads to South Carolina to find out more about their ancestry, and Winter causes tension by unexpectedly bringing Jah. Pedro connects with his estranged co
PBS Postpones ‘Finding Your Roots’ Over Episode About Affleck.The article reports on the postponement for the release of the television program "Finding Your Roots," after an investigation revealed that actor Ben Affleck pressured its producers into details about the ancestor of his owned slaves....
NEW YORK - A "Finding Your Roots episode that omitted referencesto Ben Affleck's ancestor as a...By LYNN ELBER
I don’t know why I haven’t watched every episode ofFinding Your Rootsover the years. No wait, maybe I do. I think the DNA analysis often bothers me. I remember, I believe it was the first season, when they specifically compared a Jew and an Arab and then decided the bible was tr...
On Tuesday's season premiere of Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host makes a surprising connection between two Hollywood A-listers. In ET's exclusive sneak peek at the episode, after walking Julia Roberts and Edward Norton through their respective family...
Gayle King went on PBS's Finding Your Roots and learned about her white great-grandfather, whom her family never spoke about. These are the episode's findings.
s had some sort of issue with trees – the evidence being the fact that they immediately cut down every tree in their yard – all healthy youngish trees -including the ones that shaded their full western exposed windows. Um – ok, it’s your yard, your trees. However, when they went ...
Learning about Jenna’s childhood felt like stepping into an episode of theWonder Years: safe and surrounded by love. Yes, I’m sure she had her struggles, but she definitely is in no need of therapy to make sense of it all. Her family is a creative lot, the imaginations of which wer...
Well, I am guessing if you do them, you might know more than the average person, but if you’re like me and just kind of have an idea of what they are, this episode is a good one. Aubrey and Mike go into the history of Joseph Pilates (there’s your first little nugget of ...