Soledad O’Brien, Shonda Rhimes Among Guests Set To Appear On Upcoming Season Of ‘Finding Your Roots’
After its little Ben Affleck hiccup, the PBS series Finding Your Roots is back in January with an all new third season of celebs…
Ben Affleck made news basically for trying not to make news. The actor ask Finding Your Roots‘ Henry Louis Gates Jr. to censor his slave-owning ancestor from his…
In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave owning past be scrubbed from…
The history of the African American people seems far too wide, deep and complex to boil down into 6 television episodes, but that’s what Henry…
Massachusetts — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard scholar, and Rudolph P. Byrd, a professor at Emory University, say their research for a new edition of “Cane” documents that Toomer was “a Negro who decided to pass for white.”
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research presents its annual lecture series at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown this evening, beginning at 5 pm.
