Gates, Henry Louis

A photographic exploration of the wonders of Africa, traveling by Land Cruiser, camel, dwhow, and on foot through twelve countries in an attempt to answer questions about what modern African-Americans have in common with their African ancestors, and to discover what Africans have contributed to civilization.

Presents four classic narratives illustrating the black experience in slavery.

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uses genealogical research and DNA analysis to investigate the family histories of eight prominent African-Americans, including Whoopi Goldberg, Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, and others.

Genealogical investigations and DNA analysis help participants discover where they come from and who they are.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the history of Africa, from the origins of humankind to the 20th century.

Explores the post-Civil-War-era experiences and struggles of African Americans to achieve the freedom that the Emancipation Proclamation declared was theirs, confronting first the post-war use of media--which in that time became more prominent with technology like chromolithography--to disseminate racist propaganda, and chronicling the history of African American struggles throughout the Reconstruction Era, the Jim Crow segregation era, and up to the civil rights movement.