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.
Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez, and Linda Chavez
John Legend and Wanda Sykes
Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Sanjay Gupta
Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons
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