January 6th, 2010
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pPoet Elizabeth Alexander, who composed and read the poem at President Barack Obama's inauguration, chef Mario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, writer Malcolm Gladwell, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, film director Mike Nichols, Her Royal Highness Queen Noor, actress Eva Longoria Parker, actress Meryl Streep and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi will all appear in a new PBS television series a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/FACES OF AMERICA/a airing in the U.S. next month. Hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. of African American Lives and African American Lives Two, Faces of America turns again to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 11 renowned Americans./p
pThe Faces of America series airs Wednesdays, February 10 - March 3, 2010 from 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET on PBS and includes the following four episodes: a href =http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/256332.htmRead more.../ap style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/01/06/celebrity-genealogy-new-pbs-series.htm"Celebrity Genealogy - New PBS Series/a originally appeared on a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/"About.com Genealogy/a on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 14:47:44./ppa href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/01/06/celebrity-genealogy-new-pbs-series.htm"Permalink/a | a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/01/06/celebrity-genealogy-new-pbs-series.htm#gB3"Comment/a | a href="http://genealogy.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/01/06/celebrity-genealogy-new-pbs-series.htmzItl=Celebrity Genealogy - New PBS Series"Email this/a/p
