The PBS show's main goal is to help stars uncover their family's history.
PBS has halted the third season production of Finding Your Roots after an investigation proved the omission of Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor violated ethical guidelines. The…
Ah, Ben Affleck. Hollywood Golden Boy. Two-time Oscar winner. One half of the phenomenon that was “Bennifer.” And the descendent of a slave-owning family member? Yikes! Affleck’s apparent…
In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave owning past be scrubbed from…
The history of the African American people seems far too wide, deep and complex to boil down into 6 television episodes, but that’s what Henry…
VIA EURWEB: Here we go again seems like an unfortunate, but appropriate phrase because yesterday a Boston Police Department officer was put on suspension for allegedly writing a racially charged e-mail about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, according to a law enforcement official. According to the Boston Globe, […]
VIA EURWEB: President Obama will meet this week with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer James Crowley, who arrested Gates for disorderly conduct, the White House said Monday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs did not announce the date or time the three men will convene at the White House, reports […]
