My Goal Is To Get Everybody In

If You Share A Common Ancestor With Somebody, You're Related To Them. It Doesn't Mean That You're Going To Invite Them To The Family Reunion, But It Means That You Share Dna. I Think It's Fascinating.

You Can Say I Had A Severe Case Of 'roots' Envy. I Wanted To Be Like Alex Haley, And I Wanted To Be Able To... Do My Family Tree Back To The Slave Ship And Then Reverse The Middle Passage, As I Like To Put It, And Find The Tribe Or Ethnic Group That I Was From In Africa.

My Father And I Made Genetics History. We Were The First African-americans And The First Father And Son Anywhere To Have Their Genomes Sequenced.

In America One Drop Of Black Ancestry Makes You Black. In Brazil, It's Almost As If One Drop Of White Ancestry Makes You White.

We Can't All Work In The Inner City. And, I Don't Even Think That It Is Incumbent Upon An African-american Intellectual To Be Concerned In Their Work With Problems Of Race And Class. It's Just One Of The Things, That We Here At The Dubois Institute, Are Concerned About.