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Finding Your Roots

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  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    In Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Documentaries and other projects

    …Faces of America (2010), and Finding Your Roots (2012– ). The latter, tracing the ancestral history of contemporary figures, is especially popular and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2024. Other TV credits include the documentary miniseries Wonders of the African World (1999), Black in Latin America (2011),…

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