From the companion website of the first African American Lives PBS series. (A sequel to that series was broadcast n 2008.) The series profiles the family roots of nine Americans of African descent. Learn what the science of DNA can tell us about family history that photos, letters, diaries, and other records cannot.

Concepts

family history, family trees, genealogy, dna

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Additional Tags

human genome, african american family history, african american lives, pbs, thirteen

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)