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Topic: finding your roots

Sunny Hostin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sunny Hostin writes from her own story

Alli Joseph
Young woman on sofa with grandmother looking at photo album (Getty Images/Gpointstudio)

"Finding Your Roots" highlights its fans

Nardos Haile
Michael Douglas attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Stefanie Keenan/VF24/WireImage for Vanity Fair)

Michael Douglas finds a celeb DNA cousin

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Michael Douglas on Finding Your Roots (Photo courtesy of PBS)

Michael Douglas' Revolutionary War ties

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Dionne Warwick on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

Dionne Warwick uncovers slave ancestors

Nardos Haile
Sunny Hostin on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

Sunny Hostin descends from slave owners

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Bob Odenkirk on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

Bob Odenkirk is related to King Charles

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Sammy Hagar on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

The lie Sammy Hagar found in his "Roots"

Nardos Haile
LeVar Burton in "Finding Your Roots" episode "Fathers and Sons" (PBS)

LeVar Burton Confederate roots revealed

Nardos Haile

A complex & fraught "Finding Your Roots"

Melanie McFarland
Angela Davis attends the Groundswell at 20, with Angela Davis at CUNY Graduate Center on April 6, 2017 in New York City. (Gonzalo Marroquin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Angela Davis shocked by genealogy

Kelly McClure
Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. actress Melissa McCarthy while taping Finding Your Roots. (Courtesy of McGee Media)

The politics of "Finding Your Roots"

Melanie McFarland
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Getty/Frederick M. Brown)

America's story: In Search of Our Roots

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Bernie Sanders; Larry David (AP/Charlie Neibergall/Chris Pizzello)

Sanders and David are cousins!

Charlie May
Bernie Sanders; Larry David (AP/Kay Nietfeld/Chris Pizzello)

David and Sanders are related

Matthew Rozsa
Isaiah Washington (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Alondra Nelson
Ben Affleck (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Anna Silman
Ben Affleck (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Ben & Skip's Bogus Journey

Andrew O'Hehir
Ben Affleck on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

Ben Affleck's cover-up

Anna Silman
Ben Affleck on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

PBS launches investigation

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(YouTube/PBS)

Watch Affleck brag

Joanna Rothkopf
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