FINDING YOUR ROOTS - with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Levar Burton

Presented by The Inkwell Society

Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns to the Martha's Vineyard Film Center for a special screening of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Gates will present an episode of the show featuring actor and activist Levar Burton, who will then join Gates on stage for a discussion. Gates uses genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to guide guests through the branches of their family trees. Uncovering buried secrets and inspiring stories of long- forgotten ancestors.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS highlights the genealogical backgrounds and ancestral stories of prominent guests that helped to define who they are today. At the center of it all, guiding every discovery, is host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.