{"id":158376,"date":"2021-12-03T18:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=158376"},"modified":"2021-12-03T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T23:22:18","slug":"henry-louis-gates-jr-s-finding-your-roots-season-8-gets-trailer-premier-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/henry-louis-gates-jr-s-finding-your-roots-season-8-gets-trailer-premier-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Louis Gates Jr.&#8217;s &#8216;Finding Your Roots&#8217; Season 8 Gets Trailer &amp; Premier Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n\t       <div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <div class=\"mace-youtube\" data-mace-video=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/erpwv1pQxbs?showinfo=0&#038;rel=1&#038;ytp-pause-overlay=1&#038;autoplay=1&#038;enablejsapi=1\" data-mace-video-thumb=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/erpwv1pQxbs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><div class=\"mace-play-button\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PBS recently released the official trailer and release date for season eight of the celebrity based ancestry series <em>Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr<\/em>. Season eight will help twenty-one of America\u2019s most fascinating people discover the rich history and tremendous diversity hidden within their families in the critically acclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/08\/finding-your-roots-with-henry-louis-gates-jr-season-8-premieres-january-2022-on-pbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS<\/a> series which will premiere in January 2022 on PBS.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Finding Your Roots<\/em>, Season Eight features ten new episodes showcasing guests who have excelled in a wide array of fields, each with ancestral stories that touch on the human experience and bring insight into how they became the trailblazers they are today. Among the guests are stars of the stage and screen Amy Carlson (<em>Blue Bloods<\/em>), Terry Crews (<em>Brooklyn<\/em> <em>Nine-Nine<\/em>), Tony Danza, Ra\u00fal Esparza (<em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>), Kathryn Hahn (<em>Wandavision<\/em>), Rebecca Hall (<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/em>), Nathan Lane, John Leguizamo, Leslie Odom Jr. (<em>Hamilton<\/em>) and Melissa Villase\u00f1or (<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>); multi-hyphenates Pamela Adlon, Lena Waithe and Regina King; filmmakers Lee Daniels (<em>Empire<\/em>, <em>Precious<\/em>) and Damon Lindelof (<em>Watchmen<\/em>, <em>Lost<\/em>); fashion legend Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley; journalist Erin Burnett; talk show and radio host Mario Lopez; restaurateur David Chang; andactivists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Anita Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI am thrilled to share the deeply moving and surprising stories of the wide range of guests in Season 8 of<em>\u00a0Finding Your Roots<\/em>.\u00a0I am humbled by the passion and the support our series has inspired from every sector of our society.\u00a0Our guests&#8211;and their ancestors&#8211;embody what<em>\u00a0Finding Your Roots<\/em>\u00a0and the American Experience are all about: \u00a0America is a nation of immigrants, willing and unwilling, but at the level of the genome, despite our apparent differences, we are 99% the same. Each of us is complicated in our own unique ways, but each of us descends from ancestors who have a story to tell and the goal of <em>Finding Your Roots<\/em> is to\u00a0allow them, at long last, to tell those stories.\u00a0At a time when our country has witnessed so much strife over the last year, it is so important to remind our fellow citizens of how much we share in common. That so many talented people participated in this season in\u00a0the face of the pandemic is a testament to the power of storytelling. In the most challenging of times, it is comforting&#8211;and inspiring&#8211;to know where you come from, and to reaffirm the unity of the American people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To uncover their stories, <em>Finding Your Roots <\/em>uses every tool available\u2014from cutting-edge\u00a0DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing\u2014revealing long-buried secrets and hidden aspects of our shared history. Along the way, the series compiles\u00a0family trees that span the globe\u2014from the United States to South America, Europe to Africa, Asia and more. Episode to episode, audiences will meet guests\u2019 ancestors who crisscrossed the globe to become businesspeople and bootleggers, war heroes and criminals, farmers and factory workers, all the while persevering under the most extraordinary circumstances. Together, the arc of each guest\u2019s family personalizes history while emphasizing the human connections that unite everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the center of it all, guiding every discovery, is host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assembling the extensive family trees and ancestral narratives alongside Dr. Gates are DNA expert CeCe Moore (Founder, The DNA Detective and host of ABC\u2019s <em>The Genetic Detective<\/em>) and genealogists Nick Sheedy and Kimberly Morgan, who together have solved hundreds of mysteries and reconnected innumerable lost relatives over the past two decades.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conjunction with the series, co-producer WETA, the flagship public broadcaster in the nation\u2019s capital, will work with stations across the country to encourage viewers to explore and share their family histories via social media using the hashtag #FindingYourRoots on Facebook and Twitter, via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FindingYourRootsPBS\"> Facebook<\/a> and @HenryLouisGates, and on the series companion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/finding-your-roots\/\">site<\/a>. WETA will also develop educational lesson plans for Season Eight that will explore the science behind DNA, genealogy, and ancestry testing\u2014and seek to engage high school students in meaningful ways around story-driven science concepts. This educational material will be available in the <em>Finding Your Roots<\/em> collection on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbslearningmedia.org\/collection\/fyr\/\">PBS LearningMedia<\/a>, a free service offering educators access to research-based, classroom-ready digital learning experiences that align with Common Core and national and state standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.<\/em>, Season Eight is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the writer, host, and executive producer. Dyllan McGee and Peter Kunhardt are executive producers. John F. Wilson is the executive producer in charge for WETA. Bill Gardner is the executive in charge for PBS. Sabin Streeter is the senior producer. Natalia Warchol is the series producer. Hannah Olson is the consulting producer. Deborah Clancy Porfido is the supervising producer.\u00a0 Kevin Burke is the producer.\u00a0 Robert L. 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