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Remember when Tupac and Janet Jackson crashed that picnic in Poetic Justice? How about Martin and Gina’s wedding? Watch some of the best family-reunion moments Hollywood has to offer. Click here for more of The Root’s summer family-reunion content.

In an episode of African-American Lives that originally aired on PBS in 2009, Tina Turner learns about her family’s origins as sharecroppers.

Certain Dominicans are willing to claim any race but black. In this installment of Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special Black in Latin America, learn how some use the term indio “to negate [their] African ancestry.”

The Root was on the red carpet at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Anji Corley chatted with Gayle King, Russell Simmons, Cee-Lo and the butt of the night’s jokes — Donald Trump himself. See what he had to say when asked if he really has designs on Obama’s job.

Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special, it’s clear that “racism of the heart” is still very much alive. Find out how the struggle against it is being waged under a system in which, as Gates notes, “Declaring that racism…

In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his über-low-budget, highly political indie flick, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Sweetback was the largest-grossing independent film of its time, featuring cinema’s first ghetto hero, played by Van Peebles himself. Today he’s written a graphic novel, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, and plays regular…

More blacks were transported as slaves to Mexico and Peru than to the United States. Afro-Peruvians have staged a cultural revival, but Afro-Mexicans are much more reticent about their origins. Haitians are proudly black, but brown-skinned Dominicans prefer the term “Indio.” These are just a few of the findings in Black in Latin America, the new…