Henry Louis Gates Jr. the host and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS show Finding Your Roots, traveled to the Vatican on July 5 to meet with Pope Leo XIV to present his genealogical ...

A new documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. revisits the longstanding relationship between Black and Jewish Americans. “When I was growing up, I only thought of race in terms of Black and White, ...

Pope Leo XIV may be one of the most powerful people in the world, so it only makes sense he is related to some pretty powerful people, too. “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. said the ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (Feb. 19, 2026) — PBS today announced that it would be unlocking the catalog of one of its most prolific and celebrated documentarians, Harvard professor and Emmy Award-winning ...

Fans of PBS' "Finding Your Roots" will recognize the setup: a massive family tree spread out on a table, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. ready to explore the branches of someone's lineage they never knew ...

The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., at a minimum, quashes any talk of a post-racial America. It may not be the best example of racial injustice I’ve ever seen, but it’s a ...

The Root’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a longtime friend of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes, has paid tribute to the Harvard minister in a New Yorker essay, calling Gomes a ...

How much do you really know about your ancestors? Maybe you know what countries they came from, what languages they spoke or what tribes they belonged to. But the details that help us understand ...