Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
What does Condoleezza Rice have in common with Andy Cohen? Martha Stewart with LL Cool J? Alan Dershowitz with Rupaul? They’ve all found their roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. The historian and TV presenter sat down with 21 of the most compelling personalities of the moment for Season 8 of his PBS docuseries— inspired by former RD writer Alex Haley’s 1976 book, Roots—to trace their genealogies far beyond a 23andme. In Season 7, Gates helped TV detectives Christopher Meloni and Tony Shalhoub do some real-life sleuthing, clueing them into some unlikely distant (but eminent!) cousins. Who might turn out to be related to new guests in Season 8? (Catch new episodes Tuesday nights on PBS, or stream at pbs.org/findingyourroots.)