Audra McDonald & Mandy Patinkin Will Appear on FINDING YOUR ROOTS
The episode airs on April 27th at 8 p.m. EST.by TV News Desk
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. investigates the family histories of Audra McDonald and Mandy Patinkin on a new episode of Finding Your Roots airing April 27th on PBS!
Today s most compelling personalities discover the surprising stories buried within their own families in the seventh season of the critically acclaimed PBS series FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. The new season premiered on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS.
FINDING YOUR ROOTS, Season Seven episodes will broadcast throughout Winter/Spring 2021 and will continue to feature exciting new guests who are game-changers in their fields, with family histories that illustrate the power and diversity of the human experience.
SOF Up Close: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with David Rubenstein
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Society of Fellows members at the Gold Leaf and Chairman’s Society levels are invited to a special Up Close conversation on Wednesday, April 14 featuring
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and Aspen Institute Trustee, in conversation with
David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group. The two will discuss Professor Gates’s new acclaimed PBS series based on his book,
The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, about the 400-year legacy of the Black church and how it has served as a mobilization space for the political, economic, and religious equality of Black people.
Finding Your Roots: Reporting on the Reporters: Episode 8 of
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr airing on WXXI-TV March 16, 2021.
Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling that the stories within their own family trees are every bit as compelling as the news stories they have been covering for the world. This re-aired episode is from Season 5 Episode 3.
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Finding Your Roots
will broadcast throughout Winter/Spring 2021 and will continue to feature exciting new guests who are game-changers in their fields, with family histories that illustrate the power and diversity of the human experience. Among them are actors Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Jane Lynch, Audra MacDonald, Christopher Meloni, and Tony Shalhoub; acclaimed musicians Clint Black, Rosanne Cash and Pharrell Williams; groundbreaking directors Kasi Lemmons and John Waters; renowned journalists Gretchen Carlson and Nina Totenberg; hilarious comedi
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THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG
Both Parts to Air March 2, 2021 starting at 8:00 p.m.
and explores African American faith communities
on the frontlines of hope and change
Featuring interviews with Oprah Winfrey, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Bishop Michael Curry, Cornel West, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Rev. Al Sharpton, Yolanda Adams, Rev. William Barber II, BeBe Winans, Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie and more
THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG will air March 2, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. on WOUB. This moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying