i did it with the help of professor henry louis gates. i'm going to lay it out in his documentary series called "finding your roots" on pbs. he is director of the institute for african-american research which is at harvard. he is also the author of many books including the new one "life upon these shores." everyone knows you now around the country for a lot of the work that you've done, but most recently the work in genealogy, tracing people's roots, something your name is synonymous with. have you traced your own roots? >> my father looked like a white man and my grandfather was so white we called him casper hyped h behind his back. we wanted to know where this white man came from. one of my motivations for doing the pbs series was to use genealogy and genetics to find out more about myself and we found out two very interesting things. first off, we found out that my mixture which is a percentage of ancestry from europe, africa, z asia and native america over the last 500 years. and mine, to my astonishment revealed in the middle of the

henry louis gates jr., and sorry, henry louis gates, senior. i am the jr and i am still here. [laughter] daddy loved history. and he and i -- but he also loved sports and had one older brother and it was just the two of us and he and my brother were sports junkies and i wasn't. i loved books and it took a long time for my father and me to bond coming and we started to bond when i was a teenager and we started to bond over current events. we would watch the news together and there was a time the evening news was only 15 minutes long. remember that? and we would watch the news together when i was a teenager and we would talk about it and so i realized it was a way into my father's consciousness and into his heart. i am sure he loved me deeply, but i didn't care about sports in the way that my brother did. but all of a sudden i had something i could share with my dad and i remember watching in 1959i was 9-years-old. i watched mike wallace interview malcolm x for a special called the hate that heat produced and we watched that together and then of course - 13 we watched the great

some lectures that i did at the department of afro-american studies at harvard last year for henry louis gates. >> how long will it be before we have this one? >> two years if i stop giving talks about it. >> and what's the adjective that goes before the word lincoln, if the one that precedes it is emancipaing and this one will not be convicting lincoln, what will it be called? >> it's actually called "uncivil wars: the press in the age of lincoln." >> i have a question. what was the -- can you be more precise on what the standards were that lincoln used in judging between political dissent, sedition and treason and how did he actually -- did he expound on this publicly? if so, can you tell us what he said about it? >> and i'm piggyback and add personal criticism too. >> we're getting a lot of feedback. >> is there a doctor in the house? >> i'll see what happens. >> keep your hand there. >> try that. >> you're very generously assuming that he had a set standard of rules and rationales. i haven't found any. cases were brought by generals independently of the commander in chief. he was later ask

he was asked about a question about henry louis gate from harvard.arrested -- >> yes, on his porch. >> on his own porch arrested and asked a question about it from the chicago sun times. >> what i think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of african-americans and latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. that's just a fact. that is a sign, an example of how, you know, race remains a factor in the society. that doesn't lessen the incredible progress that has been made. i am standing here at testimony to the progress that's been made. and, yet, the fact of the matter is that, you know, this still haunts us. >> wait. i think we have to give the context also. which is that part of the reason this turned into a mess is that that press conference was supposed to be about health care reform. >> that's right. the last question, i think, actually. >> they were trying so hard to turn the subject. this is the era of the death panel accusations and they are trying to so hard to turn the

he was asked about a question from henry louis gates -- was he arrested?tion about it from the chicago sun times. >> what i think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of african-americans and latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. that's just a fact. that is a sign, an example of how, you know, race remains a factor in the society. that doesn't lessen the incredible progress that has been made. i am standing here at testimony to the progress that's been made. and, yet, the fact of the matter is that, you know, this still haunts us. >> wait. i think we have to give the context also. which is that part of the reason this turned into a mess is that that press conference was supposed to be about health care reform. >> that's right. the last question, i think, actually. >> the president was trying so hard to turn the subject. this is the era of the death panel accusations and they are trying to so hard to turn the conversation into a serious constructive discussion of health care ref

eastern with henry louis gates, jr. and c-span 3 has the life of george washington with george norton smith in mount vernon, virginia. all that is coming at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> we got started because there were a lot of conservative think tanks. but before cap, there had been a symbol progressive organization that oregon economic policy, domestic policy, and more. >> the mission of the washington d.c.-based think tank. >> there is often an ideology behind decisions made in washington without little facts behind them. the evidence-based arguments behind their own views, i do think that sometimes the facts do not argue for positions because we fundamentally believe that the most important thing is to be right about what your views are. >> a look at the center for american progress sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span "q&a." >> at the 1968 olympic games, john carlos and tommie smith raised their fists in the black power salute. >> this is black power. they intimidated so many people, white people in pa

starting at 8 eastern, henry louis gates jr.ith life upon these shores, looking at african-american history 1513-2008. at 8:40, connie rice, the cousin of former secretary of state condoleezza rice, on "power concedes nothing: one woman's quest for social justice in america." and at 9:45, john carlos and dave psi run and the john carlos story, the sports moment that changed the world. booktv in prime time all this week beginning at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >>> tonight on c-span, from this year's world economic forum in davos, switzerland, see the heads of the world bank and international monetary fund along with other global leaders as they talk about the future of the world economy. >> number one, no one is immune in the current situation. it's not just the eurozone crisis, it's a crisis that could have collateral effects, spillover effects around the world, and, you know, we'll hear from others. but what i have seen and what we're seeing in numbers and in forecasts is that no country is immune, and everybody has an inte