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12.04.2022 / 09:55

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof learns about his family’s Holocaust history

© (photo credit: REUTERS/DANNY MOLOSHOK) Executive producer and writer Damon Lindelof participates in the "Watchmen" panel during the HBO portion of Television Critics Association (TCA) Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, US, July 24, 2019. Acclaimed screenwriter Damon Lindelof learns that several members of his family tree died in the Białystok ghetto during the Holocaust on Tuesday night’s episode of the celebrity genealogy show Finding Your Roots. With help from the archives at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum, the Finding Your Roots team found six pages of testimony detailing the fate of a branch of Lindelof’s family.

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01.02.2022 / 23:01

‘Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches’ Doc to Debut on HBO This Month

th century America that corresponded to different stages of Douglass’ life. Famed scholars David Blight, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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01.02.2022 / 20:05

Frederick Douglass Documentary ‘In Five Speeches’ Gets Premiere At HBO

HBO Documentary will release the documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches on February 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT via HBO and HBO Max, from executive producers Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dyllan McGee. The project is inspired by David Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

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18.05.2021 / 03:59

Johnny Cash’s first wife had Black heritage, DNA test proves

A recent DNA test has proved that Johnny Cash’s family history is a bit different than originally thought. According to Daily Mail, Vivian Liberto believed herself to be of Sicilian, German and Irish heritage, but was, in fact, descended in part from slaves.

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02.11.2020 / 18:01

WATCH: RuPaul and Cory Booker react to learning they’re related

Finding Your Roots, a program hosted by Henry Louis Gates that analyzes the ancestry, DNA codes, and familial connections of various celebrities.Booker had his DNA tested in a previous season, but, due to Gates’s records, the show was able to find a long stretch of identical DNA that the two men share in common.“He looks like my kin,” RuPaul said during the episode, which aired earlier this month. “There’s a sweetness about him that I’ve always loved and an intellect that is undeniable.

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28.07.2020 / 20:15