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TV host: Bernie Sanders and Larry David relation couldn't have been 'scripted'
"Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. says the show "couldn't have scripted" the discovery that Larry David and Bernie Sanders are related.
PBS host is 'over' Ben Affleck's slave ancestry
"That ship has sailed — it was a learning experience, and the show is bigger and better now,” Harvard University scholar Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. said.
'I was embarrassed': Affleck on show's omission of slave-owner ancestors
“I didn’t want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed,” the star posted Tuesday via Facebook.
Affleck demanded PBS program hide his slave-owning ancestor
Ben Affleck insisted on censoring the fact that one of his ancestors owned slaves from PBS show "Finding Your Roots," the Sony email hack has revealed. In a hacked Sony...