Malik Abdul Basit (aka Malik B.), a rapper, singer and longtime member of The Roots, died Wednesday.He was 47. The Roots announced Basit’s death in a statement on the group’s verified Twitter ...

The episode featuring Ben Affleck aired October 14 on PBS. No reference to Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor was made. Finding Your Roots is financed, in part, according to Gates, by the Public ...