Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots

Tuesday, August 19 at 8 p.m. 

For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom and compassion.

But in this unique and highly emotional episode, actor Laurence Fishburne is joined by Dr. Gates, who finds himself a guest on his own show for the first time.

Both men have been haunted by profound family mysteries for years. Cutting-edge DNA detective work will solve those mysteries, introducing Fishburne and Dr. Gates to ancestors whose names they have longed to hear.

A collage of people and places in Arizona with text reading: Arizona Matters
airs March 31

Arizona Matters: Food inSECURITY

Dr. Maurice Crandall
aired March 27

Who are Arizona’s founding fathers?

Fountain Hills with text reading: Food Festival Saturday, April 11, 2026, Fountain Hills, Arizona
April 11

Join us for the We-Ko-Pa ‘Check, Please! Arizona’ Food Festival

The cast of Downton Abbey in Character
aired March 8

Stream ‘Downton Abbey’ with Arizona PBS Passport

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