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10 episodes in this season

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

60 min

John Lewis and Cory Booker

60 min

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

60 min

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Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

60 min

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

60 min

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

60 min

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

60 min

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

60 min

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

60 min

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Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

60 min

Finding Your Roots

TV Series

20121h6.5

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Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Apr 7, 2012

What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor Theodore Sedgwick argued the freedom case of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as "Mumbet," in 1781 -- which helped bring an end to slavery in Massachusetts. We reveal this fact - and many others - to Sedgwick and Bacon in this episode, and learn quite a bit about slavery in the North in the process.

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Finding Your Roots

TV Series

20121h6.5

Documentary

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Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Apr 7, 2012

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