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From host to guest on PBS' "Finding Your Roots"
ROOTS PIX
This image released by PBS shows actor Laurence Fishburne, left, with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of the series "Finding Your Roots."
He invited prominent Black celebrities and traced their family trees into slavery. When the paper trail ran out, they would use DNA to see which ethnic group they were from in Africa.