Finding Your Roots 2: Live-Chat
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Join a live discussion and extended preview of the Season 2 premiere of Finding Your Roots prior to broadcast on PBS. Episode 1 features three guests who know almost nothing about their fathers’ histories: Stephen King, Courtney Vance and Gloria Reuben.
Joining the discussion will be host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The new season of Finding Your Roots kicks off September 23rd at 8PM EST (check local listings). Enjoy this extended preview and be sure to tell your friends to watch each week on PBS! Over 10 episodes the series will reveal rich family stories, tracing back to the subjects’ ancestors arrival on America’s shores, and beyond: deep into the history of their countries of origin. Each hour will highlight three guests bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link, as Gates treks through layers of ancestral history, uncovers secrets and surprises of their family trees and shares life-altering discoveries.
Major corporate support for the second season of Finding Your Roots is provided by Ancestry.com. Additional corporate funding is provided by Ford Motor Company, Johnson & Johnson and McDonalds. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky, Candace King Weir and the Daryl and Steven Roth Foundation. Support is also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.
Video Description
Finding Your Roots Season 2 - OVEE Cut
Stephen King’s father walked out on the family when Stephen was two years old and never returned; Courtney B. Vance’s father was a foster child and never knew who his biological parents were and Gloria Reuben’s father was 78 years old when she was born — he died when she was young. Henry Louis Gates solves the mystery of their paternal ancestry and introduces them to relatives they never knew.
32min 22sec
Moderator
- Thirteen/WNET
New York's PBS station
Participants
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Panelist
Host and Executive Producer of Finding Your Roots on PBS. Director of Hutchins Center for African & African American Research & Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University
- Anonymous JRDT
Panelist
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