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OPRAH’S ANCESTORS ON PRIME TIME TONIGHT: PBS and Henry Louis Gates revisit Winfrey’s roots in hour-long special.
*Premiering tonight at 8 on PBS is the special “Oprah’s Roots,” an expanded look at the family history of talk show billionaire Oprah Winfrey with host, Professor Henry Louis Gates.
Winfrey was part of Gates’ four-part PBS series “African American Lives,” which premiered in Feb. 2006 and saw Gates combine genealogical and historical research with state-of-the-art DNA analysis to trace the history of several celebrities, including Chris Tucker, Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones and Bishop T.D. Jakes.
Tonight’s program digs deeper into Winfrey’s ancestry and uncovers new and interesting insights, including her paternal grandfather’s involvement in the Civil Rights movement, the life of her great-great-grandfather Constantine Winfrey, a former slave, and the revelation that singer Mavis Staples is her distant cousin.
The special will be accompanied by the publication of Gates’ book, “Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own,” available now on www.shoppbs.org and in bookstores.
A special DVD of “Oprah’s Roots,” available at the same Web site in March, will feature 30 minutes of excerpts from the broadcast, plus more than an hour of additional comments and research guidance from genealogists, historians and geneticists featured in the program and in the original “African American Lives” series.
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