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"Finding Your Roots" highlights its fans

Nardos Haile

A complex & fraught "Finding Your Roots"

Melanie McFarland
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.
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Tracing my African American genealogy

Kenyatta D. Berry
Elizabeth Warren (AP/Charles Krupa)

Warren’s genetic heritage is irrelevant

Adam Rutherford
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Big Tech wants to own your genealogy

Jason Rhode
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The gift of DNA knowledge?

Catharine Wang - The Conversation
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"Mean" genealogist exposes Tomi Lahren

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
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DNA databases: Personal data exposed

Terry H. Schwadron
Crime labs are being set back by Jeff Session's order to shut down The National Commission on Forensic Science (<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/takahashi_kei'>takahashi_kei</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

In my genes

David Updike
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Is race genetic?

Laura Miller
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