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.

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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Thu, May 1 2:00 P.M. Forever Young     NHPBS (11.1)
Fri, May 2 8:00 P.M. Forever Young     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, May 3 12:00 A.M. Forever Young     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, May 3 7:00 P.M. Forever Young     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, May 4 5:00 P.M. Forever Young     NHPBS (11.1)
Sun, May 4 9:00 P.M. Forever Young     NH World (11.3)
Mon, May 5 1:00 A.M. Forever Young     NH World (11.3)
Mon, May 5 9:00 A.M. Forever Young     NH World (11.3)
Tue, May 6 8:00 P.M. Children of Exile     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, May 7 12:30 A.M. Children of Exile     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, May 7 12:00 P.M. Children of Exile     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, May 8 2:00 P.M. Children of Exile     NHPBS (11.1)
Fri, May 9 8:00 P.M. Children of Exile     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, May 10 12:00 A.M. Children of Exile     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, May 10 7:00 P.M. Children of Exile     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, May 11 5:00 P.M. Children of Exile     NHPBS (11.1)


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