PBS Postpones Finding Your Roots After Finding Show Buried Ben Affleck's Roots
You can hide, maybe, but you can't hide that you hid.
After the conclusion of an investigation by PBS into an episode of celebrity-family-tree-tracing show Finding Your Roots, the station has decided to postpone the third season of the show. The episode in question, #204, focused on the family history of actor Ben Affleck but kept hidden the fact that the actor had a slaveholding ancestor in his family tree.
The original discovery that the show declined to disclose this information happened as a result of an April 17 Sony email hack published on Wikileaks, which included a letter the show’s host and producer, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
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