African American Lives 2

PBS

9 p.m. ET/PT (Check Local Listings)

• February 6 (Episodes 1–2)
• February 13 (Episodes 3–4)

"I'd like to know who my people were, where they came from, what they did." This four-episode series offers fascinating personal stories of celebrities of African-American ancestry revealed through a combination of oral history, traditional genealogical research, and DNA analysis. The moving revelations of the family histories featured in this second edition of African American Lives will inspire you and your students to want to know more about your own and each other's family histories.

Among the celebrities who will learn about their roots this time are poet Maya Angelou, actor Morgan Freeman, and rock-and-roll legend Tina Turner. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Chair of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, hosts the program.

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