The actor was moved to tears when he learned where his great-great-great-great grandparents were from.
Are you going to sit your kids down for a family viewing of Roots 2016? Is it still important to show our children the traumas of our ancestors?
Big screen adaptations of novels written by black authors are few and far between, which is why these 10 movies were so monumental.
Wanda has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African American researched by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.