Culture and Community

Finding Your Roots: Fathers and Sons

Gates uncovers stories his guests have long wanted to hear, introducing them to ancestors whose names they’ve never known.

The 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognizes literature that has made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity.

Cost of Inheritance: An America Reframed Special

This America ReFramed special explores the complex issue of reparations in the U.S. using a thoughtful approach to history.

The American Buffalo: Blood Memory

For generations, America’s national mammal, the buffalo, sustained the lives of Native people, whose culture intertwined with the animal.

Finding Your Roots Marathon

Host Henry Louis Gates invites incredible guests and explores their ancestry to find what binds us all together. Season 10 coming Jan. 2.

Jewish Journey: America

Trace Jewish immigration to the U.S. through interviews and varied stories of migration through the last five centuries.

Lee and Liza’s Family Tree

Follow one family, descendants of enslaved people, as they discover their lost history, and see how genealogy can help rebuild their family tree.

Native America: Language is Life

Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. Follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.

‘A Town Called Victoria’ two-night event

When a devastating hate crime reduces the local mosque to ashes, the community of Victoria, Texas, faces the task of bridging divides.

Next at the Kennedy Center: Our People, Our Art

In bridging traditions from past to present, this episode explores the complex representation of the contemporary Indigenous experience.