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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 23, 2011
An exclusive peek at photos from Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s compendium, Life Upon These Shores.
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by Akoto Ofori-Atta onDecember 23, 2011
The Root Recommends: Life Upon These Shores, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s sweeping, photo-rich tome.
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by Akoto Ofori-Atta onDecember 22, 2011
Images from Life Upon These Shores, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s sweeping, photo-rich tome.
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by Diedtra Henderson onSeptember 21, 2011
Short on samples, researchers seek more data on African Americans' health.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onJuly 28, 2011
Our editor-in-chief quizzes the Microsoft founder on his passion about education.
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July 13, 2011
In this episode of African American Lives 2 that aired on PBS in 2008, the poet discovers where her ancestors are from and explains why she knew it all along.
Plus: Learn more about tracing your ancestry in our Roots section.
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May 31, 2011
In an episode of African-American Lives that originally aired on PBS in 2009, Tina Turner learns about her family's origins as sharecroppers.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMay 26, 2011
In this excerpt from African-American Lives, the comic is moved to tears when he learns about an ancestor who fought for the freedom of other slaves and, against terrible odds, became a state legislator at age 24.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMay 26, 2011
Determined to break her family's silence about the slavery in their roots, the poet who, as her grandmother predicted, would "teach all over this world" speaks out about coming to terms with old secrets through the genealogy project African-American Lives.
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April 8, 2011
In the PBS series Black in Latin America, The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines the complexities of race and color in the places where 95 percent of African slaves ended up: South America and the Caribbean. First up: Why slavery was more brutal in Brazil than in the U.S.
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