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Pope Leo XIV meets media representatives in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on May 12, 2025. (Maria Grazia Picciarella/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Pope Leo XIV related to Madonna, Bieber

Alex Galbraith
Dr. Henry Louis Gates with a photo of the Arthur family during their group interview. (McGee Media/PBS)

The "Great Migrations" that made us

Melanie McFarland
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

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

Michael Douglas' Revolutionary War ties

Nardos Haile
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

Nardos Haile

A complex & fraught "Finding Your Roots"

Melanie McFarland
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The Black Church (PBS)

PBS' ambitious & fraught "Black Church"

Melanie McFarland
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr (Getty Images/Salon)

Jeff calls Black scholar a "criminal"

Igor Derysh
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.; Early African American homesteading family, standing outside home in Nicodemus Historic District, Kansas. (Courtesy of McGee Media/Courtesy of Library of Congress/Salon)

"Terror became part of the mythology"

Melanie McFarland
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Bernie Sanders; Larry David (AP/Charlie Neibergall/Chris Pizzello)

Sanders and David are cousins!

Charlie May
Henry Louis Gates (Getty/Frederick M. Brown)

America: Black, white & blues

Scott Timberg
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
Isaiah Washington (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Alondra Nelson
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Ben Affleck (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Ben & Skip's Bogus Journey

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

PBS launches investigation

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Watch Affleck brag

Joanna Rothkopf
Ben Affleck (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

Salon Staff
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Ben Affleck (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

An unusual editorial request

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Ann Coulter, David Brooks (AP/Peter Kramer/Nam Y. Huh/Photo montage by Salon)

Very sneaky, Brooks & Coulter

Thomas Frank
Chuck Todd, David Brooks (NBC News/AP/Nam Y. Huh)

David Brooks' twisted manhood

Paul Rosenberg

O'Reilly: It's "the culture"

Elias Isquith
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