This series is available to stream on demand with KPBS Passport. AFRICA’S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS is a three-part, six-hour documentary series hosted, executive produced and written by Henry Louis Gates, ...

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. thought far too many people adhered to stereotypes when thinking of Africa. That led him to make “Africa’s Great Civilizations,” a six-part documentary that ...

For so long the artistic history of an entire continent has largely been told by others or stowed away in faraway museums. As pressure mounts on museums outside Africa to return art and artifacts ...

Premiering tonight on PBS, the six-hour miniseries spans 200,000 years of African history to challenge the myths about the continent For someone who is one of the world’s foremost scholars on African ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: I’m a sucker for a good, engaging, pretty history doc. It’s just who I am. But last month, I became absolutely spellbound by a six-part docu-series called Africa’s Great ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- To close out Black History Month, PBS presents the three-night, six-hour documentary, "Africa's Great Civilizations," which is written, produced and hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates ...

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. wants to change the way people outside Africa think about the continent. Too often, he says, people conjure up images of poverty and disease because few know of its great empires ...

Humanity was born in Africa. But at some point, many of our ancestors left. The question of when and how they bid farewell to the continent remains a subject of some debate: A mass exodus occurred ...

Did you know that afro combs were used in ancient African civilizations? Did you know that afro combs were used in ancient African civilizations? Burial pits in the Nile Valley have been the source of ...

For someone who is one of the world’s foremost scholars on African peoples, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is very easy to talk to. The “Finding Your Roots” host is one of America’s foremost public ...