Season 6
Major corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Six is provided by Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.

Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell, and Zac Posen discover surprising roots.
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Coming to America

Gayle King, Jordan Peele, and Issa Rae discover surprising roots.
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Breaking Silences

Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong’o, and Lidia Bastianich discover surprising roots.
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Flight

Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, and Kehinde Wiley discover surprising rates.
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War Stories

Téa Leoni and Joe Madison discover surprising roots.
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DNA Mysteries

Diane Von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez, and RuPaul Charles discover surprising roots.
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Fashion's Roots

Laura Linney, Lisa Ling, and Soledad O’Brien discover surprising roots.
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Criminal Kind
Jimmy Kimmel, Marisa Tomei, and John Turturro meet ancestors who made immense sacrifices.
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Italian Roots
Ava DuVernay, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Questlove discover unexpected family histories.
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Slave Trade

Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus learn their family histories.
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Science Pioneers

Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado, and Amy Ryan unearth surprising family histories.
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Secrets & Lies

Jeff Goldblum, Terry Gross, and Marc Maron uncover unknown family histories.
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Beyond the Pale

Queen Latifah and Jeffrey Wright discover unexpected family trees.
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This Land Is My Land

Sterling K. Brown, Jon Batiste, and Shasheer Zamata learn their family histories.
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Homecomings

Dr. Gates helps Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet answer family mysteries.
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Off the Farm

Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow, and Isabella Rosselini learn their family histories.
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