Beginning Wednesday, February 2:
"For generations, we have been unable to learn about our African heritage or our family trees. What if we could trace our roots?"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/
A related story:
http://www.courant.com/features/life...headlines-life
When he employed DNA testing to find the roots of prominent African Americans for a new genealogy show on PBS for Black History Month, Henry Louis Gates Jr. couldn't resist looking into his own family's past.
What he found surprised him: The W.E.B. Du Bois professor of humanities and chair of the African and African American Studies Department at Harvard University was half white.
"Oh, man. It was the long dark night of the soul," Gates says about the discovery, joking: "what about my reparation check? I have to give away half of my reparation check? All that affirmative-action money - I have to give it back. It's terrible. It's very embarrassing to me."
If you could trace your roots, would you? If you found out something as surprising as what Gates found out, would it change your self-perception? Your identity?
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