FINDING YOUR ROOTS | PBS America – Video

Posted: January 11, 2013 at 9:42 pm




FINDING YOUR ROOTS | PBS America
FINDING YOUR ROOTS - premieres Sundays at 8pm from 24 February 2013 PBS America - Sky 166 / Virgin Media 243 / pbsamerica.co.uk PBS America - the new channel from America #39;s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) - brings British audiences Finding Your Roots, a brand new 10-part series that explores race, culture and identity through genealogy and genetics. Having launched America #39;s current trend of ancestry-related TV shows back in 2006 with African American Lives, Professor Gates says this, his 12th television series, "gets into the DNA of American culture". In each hour-long episode, he takes viewers along for the journey with one celebrity group bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden, link; trekking through layers of ancestral history, uncovering secrets and surprises of their family trees and sharing life-altering discoveries. This exciting new format, which harnesses new and powerful DNA analysis techniques to unlock lost branches of family trees, launches with an episode featuring actor Samuel L. Jackson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons. Each has climbed to the pinnacle of their profession, yet each started life as a second class citizen in the Jim Crow south. In this launch episode, Gates uses DNA analysis to investigate where each of them come from in Africa, and who the white men are in their family trees. Guest groupings include award-winning husband-and-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, who ...

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