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    • Meet the 'Faces of America': Eva Longoria

      In his new PBS series, Faces of America, The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the ancestry of 12 famous Americans. Take a look at excerpts from Eva Longoria's interview.

    • Meet the 'Faces of America': Dr. Mehmet Oz

      In his new PBS series, Faces of America, The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the ancestry of 12 famous Americans. Take a look at excerpts from Dr. Mehmet Oz's interview.

    • Meet the 'Faces of America': Kristi Yamaguchi

      In his new PBS series, Faces of America, The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the ancestry of 12 famous Americans. Take a look at excerpts from Olympics-gold-winning figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi.

    • Meet the 'Faces of America': Elizabeth Alexander

      In his PBS series, Faces of America, The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the ancestry of 12 famous Americans. Take a look at excerpts from Elizabeth Alexander's interview.

    • Meet the 'Faces of America': Mario Batali

      In his new PBS series, Faces of America, The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the ancestry of 12 famous Americans. Take a look at excerpts from Chef Mario Batali's interview.

    • Meet the 'Faces of America': Stephen Colbert

      Faces of America debuts in February. The Root has obtained clips from the program that will be posted on this site throughout Black History Month. These excerpts are from Gates’ interview with the host of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert.

       

    • Meet the 'Faces of America'

      The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., is launching a new PBS show that builds on the success of his African-American Lives, a series that traced the ancestry of famous black Americans. His new series, Faces of America, uses the same potent combination of traditional genealogical research and advanced DNA techniques to explore the immigrant origins of 12 famous Americans. The Root has obtained clips from the program that will be posted on this site throughout Black History Month. These excerpts are from Gates’ interview with Queen Noor, the widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan. The queen was born in the United States but is great-granddaughter of an immigrant from Syria.

       

    • The Root Interview: Claude Steele on How Racial Stereotypes Harm Performance

      Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks to the Columbia Provost about defanging the "stereotype threat," changing white colleagues' attitudes and "hypnotizing" black people. The interview is the second in a series conducted under the auspices of the Du Bois Review: Social Science on Race, a bi-annual journal housed at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University.

    • Mr. Obama's Sweet Potato Pie

      If it's sweet potato pie that Barack Obama wants, then it is sweet potato pie that Barack Obama must have.

    • Spike Lee Speaks About 'Do the Right Thing' 20 Years later

      VIDEO: Spike Lee, in a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's Editor-in-Chief, calls out the critics who predicted violence at the release of his groundbreaking 1989 film and clarifies what the "right thing" really was.