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‘Finding Your Roots’ to return for season 3 after PBS probe

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) _ ``Finding Your Roots'' will return for season three, but whether the celebrity genealogy series that buried an uncomfortable fact...

Gates charts 5 centuries of African American history in new PBS documentary

This Aug. 7, 2013 photo provided by Rahoul Ghose/PBS shows Henry Louis Gates Jr. during PBS’ "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr." session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Rahoul Ghose/PBS) by Frazier MooreAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Slavery in the United States was once a roaring success whose wounds still afflict the country today. So says Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who examines both its success and shame in "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross," his new PBS documentary series that traces 500 years of black history. "Slavery is a perfect example of why we need limits on the more unfortunate aspects of human nature," he says. "Slavery was capitalism gone berserk."

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