TV Show Details
Air Date:February 1st, 2006
Last Air Date:February 23rd, 2008
Network:PBS
Status:Returning Series
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
African American Lives (2006-2008)
PBS
Documentary
TV Series
Audience Score
African American Lives is a PBS television miniseries hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., focusing on African American genealogical research. The family histories of prominent African Americans are explored using traditional genealogic techniques as well as genetic analysis.
Gates has written an associated book, In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past, which was published in early 2009.
