The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in Finding Your Roots, the PBS program hosted by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor and the founding ...

Family mysteries are solved for actor Laurence Fishburne & scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In a unique and highly emotional episode, actor Laurence Fishburne is joined by scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

For over 10 seasons, “Finding Your Roots” has delved into celebrities’ family trees — and one woman has been behind many of the shocking discoveries, unearthed secrets and tear-jerking revelations.

CUMBERLAND — “Finding Your Roots” fans have waited 10 long months since the PBS series filmed the Jane Gates family downtown, but the show is now just weeks away. The season 11 finale, “Finding My ...

The acclaimed series returns with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. exploring the mysteries, surprises and revelations hidden in the family trees of popular figures. FINDING YOUR ROOTS: Sean Sherman ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Nancy Pelosi, Norah O'Donnell and Zac Posen explore their immigrant roots, retracing the journeys of their ancestors who arrived in the United States with little more than ...

Kristen Bell has a big reaction to finding out that her relative was living in America as a spy — for the British, no less! — following the Revolutionary War on a new episode of PBS series Finding ...

Sheryl Lee Ralph is the latest star to have her world rocked by a startling Finding Your Roots discovery. On the upcoming April 1 episode of the PBS genealogy series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores ...

Debra Messing is feeling the Bern. The “Will & Grace” alum learned in a February episode of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” that she is related to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fact which blew her away.

Debra Messing is feeling the Bern. The “Will & Grace” alum learned in a February episode of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” that she is related to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fact which blew her away.