Abbott Elementary” actor Sheryl Lee Ralph had an emotional reaction after learning her family history in the April 1 episode ...

The web series “Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings” follows 13 young people at a new genetics and genealogy camp as they use science to answer the question “Who am I?” Inspired by the ...

Dustin Hoffman didn’t know the names of his paternal grandparents when he appeared Tuesday on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates.” After learning of the tragedies in his ...

“I know our stories speak to people because I am stopped everywhere by old and young; white and Black; Christian, and Hindu, and they say, ‘We love your show,'” Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr ...

Debra Messing is feeling the Bern. The “Will & Grace” alum learned in a February episode of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” that she is related to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fact which ...

The singer-songwriter appeared on Tuesday's Season 10 premiere of 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023.

(JTA) — Jewish actress and writer Lena Dunham is the latest Hollywood star to discover that her family has ties to the Holocaust on the PBS celebrity genealogy series “Finding Your Roots.” ...