What do you know about PBS series,Faces of america?”
Reporting from New York – When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. started his latest genealogical project for PBS, which used historical archives and cutting-edge genetic research to trace the ancestry of a dozen famous Americans, he already had one hoped-for outcome in mind. “I wanted to pick someone who is Jewish and someone who is Muslim and pray we get the same result in their DNA,” he said. Sure enough, genetic testing revealed that director Mike Nichols, of Eastern European Jewish heritage, and surgeon and television host Mehmet Oz, the son of Turkish Muslim immigrants, had a common paternal ancestor thousands of years ago. “That is like affirming the story of Abraham,” Gates said delightedly. The finding is one of the discoveries featured in “Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” a four-part series premiering Wednesday night on PBS. The spinoff of Gates’ series “African American Lives” seeks to tell the story of American immigration by unearthing the heritage of the
Reporting from New York – When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. started his latest genealogical project for PBS, which used historical archives and cutting-edge genetic research to trace the ancestry of a dozen famous Americans, he already had one hoped-for outcome in mind. “I wanted to pick someone who is Jewish and someone who is Muslim and pray we get the same result in their DNA,” he said. Sure enough, genetic testing revealed that director Mike Nichols, of Eastern European Jewish heritage, and surgeon and television host Mehmet Oz, the son of Turkish Muslim immigrants, had a common paternal ancestor thousands of years ago. “That is like affirming the story of Abraham,” Gates said delightedly. The finding is one of the discoveries featured in “Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” a four-part series premiering Wednesday night on PBS. The spinoff of Gates’ series “African American Lives” seeks to tell the story of American immigration by unearthing the heritage of the
