Laughing on the Inside

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. provides comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. with accounts of hardship in their family trees which may have led them to each find humor in adversity.

Comedy runs in the family! Lewis Black and previous Finding Your Roots guest Marc Maron are cousins.

“He was always nice to me.” Roy Wood Jr. discovers his DNA cousin match is one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights movement, the great John Lewis

Roy Wood Jr. reflects on the hopefulness he feels for his son after reading how his ancestors struggled to raise their children through slavery and the heartache that still exists in our country.