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As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.
GATES: Yeah, and his ancestor - so obviously the pope wasn't the first person on his family tree to think about being a priest. DETROW: Yeah. We talked about the Black people in the pope's family ...
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the ...
Their family tree may have had a branch or a few with roots as dark as the ground that covered them. But because of the myriad chemical permutations that result from the mixing and twisting of DNA ...