Season 12 of 'Finding Your Roots' premieres January 6 on PBS, where host Henry Louis Gates Jr. unveils ancestral stories for celebrities.

Beginnings -- Oprah -- Into the past -- Out of slavery: a paper trail -- Beyond the middle passage: DNA -- Looking back https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...

America Ferrera learns that one of her cousins is director Ava DuVernay in the upcoming 12th season of Finding Your Roots ...

List of maps, charts, and tables -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of selected events -- Map of Africa -- Encyclopedia of Africa -- Contributors, volume 2 -- Topical outline of selected ...

Mark Loehrer is a St. Louis Urban Historian who colorizes archival black-and-white photos. Mark Loehrer is a St. Louis Urban Historian and artist who colorizes archival black and white photos from the ...

An American Story" features a chart of the pope's lineage that spans 15 generations. The exhibit also aims to shed light on ...

Stroke: The Circle of Healing is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

PEOPLE can exclusively premiere the trailer for the upcoming season, which sees Spike Lee declare, "This is one of the ...

Judge Raymond P. Moore discovered his fifth cousin was the pope at the same time everyone else did. The federal judge and Boston native was reading an article in The New York Times about Po ...

South Florida PBS (WPBT, WXEL, and Health Channel) is excited to unveil a dynamic lineup of programming and events this October. From stepping back in time with our newest immersive […] The post ...

*The music world has lost a foundational figure of 1970s funk with the passing of Louis “Douaam” Villery Jr., the acclaimed bassist, songwriter, and founder of the influential group The African Music ...

Louis Perry Porter Jr. passed away peacefully on September 20, 2025, at the age of 84. Born on June 12, 1941, in Stamps, Arkansas, he was the eldest of eight children born to Louis Porter Sr. and Mary ...