I'm a real fan of Henry Louis Gates' PBS series, African-American Lives. He's reprising the original series--which did both family history research and DNA analysis with Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and others--with more genealogical research into the pasts of prominent black Americans. And he's continuing his remarkable work reconstructing familial realities that defy contemporary stereotypes about both whites and blacks. Check out this moving segment with Morgan Freeman, and see what you think.