Producer: Henry Louis Gates Jr., John Maggio, Jesse Sweet, Joshua Gleason, Sabin StreeterĮxecutive Producer: Henry Louis Gates Jr. The British Are Coming - Deepak Chopra, Sally Field, StingĪncient Roots - Tina Fey, David Sedaris, George Stephanopoulosĭecoding Our Past through DNA - Jessica Alba, Gov. Our People, Our Traditions - Alan Dershowitz, Carole King, Tony Kushner We Come from People - Angela Bassett, Valerie Jarrett, Nas The Melting Pot - Tom Colicchio, Aarón Sánchez, Ming Tsai Our American Storytellers - Ken Burns, Anderson Cooper, Anna Deavere Smith Vanceīorn Champions - Derek Jeter, Billie Jean King, Rebecca Lobo In Search of Our Fathers - Stephen King, Gloria Reuben, Courtney B. Each of the 9 episodes highlights three celebrity guests, as Gates guides them through layers of ancestral history, uncovering secrets and surprises of their family trees and sharing life-altering discoveries. Now, in the second season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor Gates continues that journey, utilizing a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world's leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears. Zooey Deschanel and The Farm Project are back to show us where our food really comes from.
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Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives (2006), noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Your Foods Roots posted an episode of a series with Garden of Life.