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7. 7. "Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons". April 29, 2012. ( 2012-04-29) Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons trace their genealogical backgrounds into slavery and, with the help of DNA analysis, back to Africa. 8. 8. "Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta".
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS.In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view their ancestral histories, learn about familial connections and discover ...
LC Class. E185.97.H24 A33. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America. It explores his life and those of his descendants in the United States, down to Haley.
2. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...
Finding Your Roots. Faces of America is a four-part Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television television series hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.. [ 1] The series originally aired February 10 to March 3, 2010 from 8–9 p.m. ET. [ 2] In Australia, this program aired on SBS One each Sunday at 7:30pm from 9 -30 January 2011.
Website. www .garrisonkeillor .com. Gary Edward " Garrison " Keillor ( / ˈkiːlər /; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he ...
Also co-creator, writer (6 episodes) and executive producer 2016 Silicon Valley: Pipey Voice; Episode: "Daily Active Users" Finding Your Roots: Himself Episode: "War Stories" (S06E13) 2018–2023 Barry: Barry Berkman/Barry Block/Clark 32 episodes Also co-creator, director (18 episodes), writer (12 episodes), and executive producer 2019
In a 2019 episode of Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Samberg discovered that his mother Marjorie, who was adopted by Jewish parents, is the biological daughter of a Sicilian Roman Catholic father named Salvatore Maida, who immigrated in 1925, [15] and a German-Jewish refugee mother named Ellen Philipsborn, who had come to ...