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Tragedy + Time = Comedy: Norman Lear
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Norman Lear traces his lineage in Finding Your Roots: Season Three.
For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.
Video description: Sean Combs reacts to the news that his third-great-grandfather was free in Maryland, which was a slave state at the time in 1850. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. tells Sean Combs how rare it is for African-American guests on Finding Your Roots to have free ancestors during the mid-1800s.
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