Finding Your Roots
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Journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones uncover the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.
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Finding Your Roots
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Preview: Season 9 Episode 9 | 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.
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A new season of Finding Your Roots is premiering January 7th! Stream now past episodes and tune in to PBS on Tuesdays at 8/7 for all-new episodes as renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides influential guests into their roots, uncovering deep secrets, hidden identities and lost ancestors.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipJONES: What?
NARRATOR: On, "Finding Your Roots".
Jim Acosta.
ACOSTA: Your preconceived notions of where you came from, who you are, doesn't mean squat.
NARRATOR: And Van Jones.
JONES: I knew that my dad's side of the family had a rougher path.
NARRATOR: Finding a founding family in Cuba.
GATES: I wonder if they even know?
ACOSTA: I'm sure they don't know.
NARRATOR: And a DNA match!
GATES: You would never guess in a million years.
JONES: That's nuts!
NARRATOR: "Finding Your Roots".
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