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For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.

Finding Your Roots returns, telling stories that illuminate America’s fundamental diversity.
Laurence discovers the identity of his great-great-great-grandmother.
Family mysteries are solved for actor Laurence Fishburne & scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members; and by public television viewers.
Tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles shared a trait that helped them survive extinction.
Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, a Venezuelan family struggles to keep its legal status.
Are there really microplastics in chewing gum? George tries to find out.
Does quantum mechanics allow the future to retroactively influence the past or not?
Fish evolved terrestrial traits to...stay fish?
An investigation into how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power.