Has anyone else seen "African American Lives" on PBS?

jeffrey_X

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Mon Feb-20-06 11:21 AM
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Has anyone else seen "African American Lives" on PBS?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/

We watched the entire series yesterday. It was outstanding!

The interesting part to me was when Henry Louis Gates, Jr. found out he is 50% european through DNA testing. Here's a guy who's spent his life dedicated to AA studies and is the head of AA studies at Harvard. Chris Tucker's story is amazing as well.

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Dirty Hippie

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Mon Feb-20-06 11:34 AM
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1. Amazing Series

I wish I could have my DNA tested. I would love to check several boxes on forms that ask for race (Hm-mm, White, African American, Native American, Hispanic, all of the above!).

The series illustrated why race is such a ridiculous categorization. Most of us are Heinz 57s.

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susu369

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Mon Feb-20-06 12:14 PM
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2. Fascinating!

I'd love to see it again.

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