Fighters

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sits down with Terry Crews and Tony Danza, both guests who overcame adversity, to discover they aren’t the first in their families to beat the odds through sheer force of will. Tuesdays at 8/7c

“This is a movie!” Terry Crews is relieved to hear that members of his family, torn apart during slavery when the children were sold off, eventually found their way back to each other again.

Tony Danza wells up with emotion while learning about his grandfather's grueling existence working as a tinner after migrating to America in 1909.

Terry Crews learns the true extent of grandfather's abandonment of his family when his father was only nine years old.

Tony Danza describes how an open audition led to a group of Hollywood heavyweights attending his boxing match, and the chance of a lifetime.