A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.

Presented and written by acclaimed Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with commentary by Doris Kearns Goodwin, LOOKING FOR LINCOLN explores the controversies, paradoxes and ...

Season 11 of “Finding Your Roots,” which premiered Jan. 7, features guests like Melanie Lynskey, Lea Salonga, Sharon Stone, ...

The acclaimed Harvard professor explains to PEOPLE the inspiration behind his PBS hit show, which is in its 10th season For ...

Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the ...

Gates' team found a baptism record for Malhabor's son that revealed Malhabor was from Prussia, a territory that included parts of Germany, Poland and Russia. More specifically, Malhabor likely came ...

The longtime PBS series host reveals some of the surprises in store in the coming episodes, including one of his own.

But according to an NPR interview with Harry Lewis, another Harvard professor who taught Gates in the 1970s, those researchers had the help of powerful computers. The young Gates, on the other ...