We take a retrospective look at cultural historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. and how his work has made history come alive for millions of Americans.

Finding Your Roots” fans have waited 10 long months since the PBS series filmed the Jane Gates family downtown, but the show ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey.

If “Great Migrations: A People on the Move” had followed Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s original schedule, it would have aired on PBS years ago. However, Donald Trump’s election in 2016 ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of married actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.

The Microsoft cofounder talked about his "pretty ideal" childhood, with one shocking loss, at a Harvard Book Store event on Monday evening.

In this exclusive clip from PBS's Finding Your Roots, actress Debra Messing discovers her grandparents' marriage certificate ...

Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey are the two latest celebrities to discover that their family tree is bigger than they knew.

The Jeffersons,” which debuted a half-century ago this year, presented the image of an upwardly mobile Black businessman, ...

Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey both learned that people in the public eye that they know are actually their distant ...

Per the official synopsis, in the episode, which airs Tuesday, Gates introduces actors Debra Messing and Lynskey to their ...