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Season 12 Episode
- Season 1 Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.
- Season 1 John Lewis and Cory Booker
- Season 1 Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada
- Season 1 Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
- Season 1 Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi
- Season 1 Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Season 1 Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons
- Season 1 Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta
- Season 1 John Legend and Wanda Sykes
- Season 1 Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez
Finding Your Roots - Season 1 Episode 2 John Lewis and Cory Booker
6.40 60 minutes In this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecropping family in rural Georgia, while Cory Booker was raised in an affluent, all-white New Jersey suburb. Although both men have devoted their lives to the betterment of African-American people, neither of them knows much about their own ancestors. In this episode, we introduce Booker to his white great-grandfather, a man he never knew, and move Lewis to tears over the extraordinary ambitions and accomplishments of his slave ancestors..
