Finding Your Roots

PBS Shelves “Finding Your Roots” After Ben Affleck…

PBS has halted the third season production of Finding Your Roots after an investigation proved the omission of Ben Affleck’s slave-owning…
by Desire Thompson
01.01.70
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Ben Affleck Had Ancestor’s Slave Owning Past Scrubbed…

In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave…
by NewsOne Staff
01.01.70
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What Skip Gates Said To Make Colin Powell…

The history of the African American people seems far too wide, deep and complex to boil down into 6 television…
by NewsOne Staff
01.01.70
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Wanda Sykes Traces Roots Back To 17th Century

In a rare genealogical discovery, comic actress Wanda Sykes has been able to identify that her familial roots in America go…
by NewsOne Staff
09.02.45
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. To Host ‘Black In…

Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be hosting a new four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America.…
by Charles Dixon
01.01.70
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Book Claims Writer Jean…

Massachusetts —  Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard scholar, and Rudolph P. Byrd, a professor at Emory University, say their…
by NewsOne Staff
01.01.70
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Skip Gates To Present “Locked Out, Locked Up:…

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research presents its annual lecture series at the Old Whaling…
by NewsOne Staff
01.01.70
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OPINION: Skip Gates Is Wrong – America Still…

From AOL Black Voices: Last week, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., made the controversial claim that black Africans were…
by smokey fontaine
01.01.70
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CONVERSATION: Tavis Smiley and His Band of Nutty…
by NewsOne Staff
01.01.70
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12-Person Panel Will Review Harvard Professor’s Arrest
by smokey fontaine
01.01.70
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