Season 12 of 'Finding Your Roots' premieres January 6 on PBS, where host Henry Louis Gates Jr. unveils ancestral stories for celebrities.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Finding Your Roots, host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. dives ...

NEW YORK — For 11 seasons, Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sat across from his guests on the popular PBS series "Finding Your Roots" and led them through secrets in their family tree. On Tuesday, it's his ...

The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in Finding Your Roots, the PBS program hosted by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor and the founding ...

Stage and screen stars and Oklahoma natives Kristin Chenoweth and Tracy Letts, along with former Oklahoma City Thunder star Chris Paul, will be featured on the upcoming season of "Finding Your Roots." ...

This image released by PBS shows actor Laurence Fishburne, left, with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of the series “Finding Your Roots." (PBS via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — For 11 seasons, Henry Louis Gates ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For 11 seasons, Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sat across from his guests on the popular PBS series “Finding Your Roots” and led them through secrets in their family tree. On Tuesday, it’s ...