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As a literary scholar and authority on African American history, Henry Louis Gates Jr. has written or co-written 24 books and serves on the faculty of Harvard University.
But he didn't achieve broad public attention until he began hosting "Finding Your Roots," a popular PBS series in which celebrities explore their ancestry, often with surprising results. During an episode of a related program, "African American Lives 2," comedian Chris Rock discovers that his great-great-grandfather,
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