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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 'Finding Your Roots'

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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My Dad Loved Red Fox. He Loved Flip Wilson.

My big hero was Flip Wilson. But he liked even before, pig beat Markham. He would tell my brother and me, I have one brother, five years old, Dr. Paul Gates, he would do their routines just sitting around. If you ask him to tell a joke or a story, he would even clam up. Ed Sullivan would have a lot of these people on his show on Sunday night. Obviously, they weren't doing the trick.

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