Despite Ben Affleck, Finding Your Roots Is Finally Back
LatestWhen Ben Affleck tried to sidestep his family’s slave-owning history on PBS’s Finding Your Roots, he ended up prompting an investigation of the show as well as its indefinite postponement. But now, Finding Your Roots is back!
In April, Wikileaks revealed Sony emails that showed Affleck’s discomfort with his true family history being disclosed in an episode of PBS’s ancestral discovery show, Finding Your Roots. The messages also conveyed that Dr. Henry Louis Gates, producer and host of the show (as well as Harvard’s Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research), didn’t really want to omit Affleck’s fairly average closet skeleton but acquiesced anyway.