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  After its little Ben Affleck hiccup, the PBS series Finding Your Roots is back in January with an all new third season of celebs…

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PBS has halted the third season production of Finding Your Roots after an investigation proved the omission of Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor violated ethical guidelines. The…

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In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave owning past be scrubbed from…

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The history of the African American people seems far too wide, deep and complex to boil down into 6 television episodes, but that’s what Henry…

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be hosting a new four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America. RELATED: Was James Franco high at the Oscars?

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Massachusetts —  Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard scholar, and Rudolph P. Byrd, a professor at Emory University, say their research for a new edition of “Cane” documents that Toomer was “a Negro who decided to pass for white.”