Jack Youngelson

THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY traces the evolution of genetics as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.

THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY interweaves the story of the revolution in modern genetic science with stories from the frontlines of medicine, featuring patients, and researchers racing to cure the errors in their DNA that afflict them.

Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives (2006), noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Now, in the second season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor Gates continues that journey, utilizing a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the...

The family histories of New Orleans musicians Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr.

The ancestral pasts of married Hollywood actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

The ancestral pasts of Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Sanjay Gupta.

The ancestral pasts of Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez, and Linda Chavez.

The ancestral pasts of Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons.

This program explores ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals in these difficult times.