Word: lightfooted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...four-hour series, part one of which aired yesterday, chronicles the quests of Gates, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actress Whoopi Goldberg, astronaut Mae Jemison, musician Quincy Jones, televangelist T.D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and fellow Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as they trace their family trees all the way back to Africa...
...Lawrence-Lightfoot, who is Fisher professor of education, said she was amazed by how far back her genealogy could be traced, even though she was already familiar with her family’s oral history, which she encountered in writing her mother’s biography...
...most exciting part for me was learning...how many generations back there were of free blacks,” Lawrence-Lightfoot said...
...fact, Gates said that he and Lawrence-Lightfoot had the oldest lineages out of the group of nine...
...Lawrence-Lightfoot echoed Gates’ sentiment...