Who do you think you are? This Fox news reporter shares a fascinating report that about being kept in the dark about his famiy's roots.

Marian Pierre-Louis  posted this to her genealogy circles on Google Plus:
Fantastic video. Sort of an 11 minute cross between Who Do You Think You Are? and History Detectives. Thanks to +Angela Walton-Raji for finding this gem.
A relatively White looking Reporter from Detroit discovers His Black Ancestry (Part 1)

 Detroit Fox 2 Reporter Charlie Leduff returned to Michigan as a reporter after being away for nearly 20 years. When he was a boy, was taught almost nothing...

A while back we were discussing mulattos so you might find this very interesting. Doesn't matter if you were half-black or half-Indian. It talks about why people in the past hid their true identities.

He also talks about the riots in Detroit and I remember my parents talking about that. I was too young to know what was going on. But, I still remember them being very frightened for my grandparents.