The “Finding Your Roots” host shares how he went from being a kid history buff to a revered academic to the gentleman who ...

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its eleventh season on PBS. Over the course of 10 new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA ...

So proposes the legendary Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his searching new book, “The Black Box: Writing the Race.” The seven chapters that make up “The Black Box” are revised ...