Season 11 of “Finding Your Roots,” which premiered Jan. 7, features guests like Melanie Lynskey, Lea Salonga, Sharon Stone, ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the ancestry of 12 Americans Corporate funding is provided by The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson. Additional funding is provided by the W.K. Kellogg ...

The longtime PBS series host reveals some of the surprises in store in the coming episodes, including one of his own.

A few years later, his “secret dream” of hosting a documentary series would become ... but you can’t hide!'" For more on ...

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its eleventh season on PBS. Over the course of 10 new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...

The documentary show researches prominent figures' family histories through historical records and DNA testing. On the February 6 episode, show host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed one of Hostin's ...

“I know our stories speak to people because I am stopped everywhere by old and young; white and Black; Christian, and Hindu, and they say, ‘We love your show,'” Dr. Henry Louis ...