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African American Lives 2 premiered on February 6, 2008 and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be hosting once again. The series will discover and trace the ancestry of Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, Tom Joyner, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, Peter Gomes, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Maya Angelou, Bliss Broyard, Linda Johnson Rice, and Kathleen Henderson, a college administrator who was selected from more than 2,000 applicants of ordinary people to have her family history researched and DNA tested along with the well-known guests. The show will continue the genealogical research into Henry Louis Gates's ancestry and will show his induction speech into the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Louis Gates has written a book 'In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past' which will be published in Spring 2008.
[edit] Episodes and airing times
- Episode one, "The Road Home" (2/6, 9:00 p.m.)
- Episode two, "A Way Out of No Way" (2/6, 10:00 p.m)
- Episode three, "We Come From People" (2/13, 9:00 p.m)
- Episode four, "The Past Is Another Country" (2/13, 10:00 p.m)
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