The Vanguard
finding your roots

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author and activist Janet Mock see their basic assumptions about their families challenged, placing their ancestors - of all colors - into the greater context of black history.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 404

About Finding Your Roots:

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

is the 12th and latest series from the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar.

In this 10-part series, Professor Gates continues the quest he begun in African American Lives 1 and 2 and Faces of America delving into the genealogy and genetics of an all new group of famous Americans.

The series combines history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family, and identity in today's America.

Each hour features a different pair of celebrity guests, who are bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link, whether it be as old friends, through long-lost relatives, or even through a common ancestral past.


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Wed, Jul 17 12:00 P.M. Activist Roots     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Jul 17 5:00 P.M. Activist Roots     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Jul 18 5:00 A.M. Activist Roots     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Jul 19 8:00 P.M. Activist Roots     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Jul 20 12:00 A.M. Activist Roots     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Jul 20 7:00 P.M. Activist Roots     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, Jul 21 5:00 P.M. Dna Mysteries     NHPBS (11.1)
Tue, Jul 23 8:00 P.M. Far from Home     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Jul 24 1:00 A.M. Far from Home     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Jul 24 12:00 P.M. Far from Home     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Jul 24 5:00 P.M. Far from Home     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Jul 25 5:00 A.M. Far from Home     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Jul 25 2:00 P.M. Far from Home     NHPBS (11.1)
Fri, Jul 26 8:00 P.M. Far from Home     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Jul 27 12:08 A.M. Far from Home     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Jul 27 7:00 P.M. Far from Home     NH Explore (11.2)


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