Hacked Sony emails published by Wikileaks have brought to light an incident in which Ben Affleck apparently asked the creators of the PBS show Finding Your Roots not to reveal that one of his ancestors was a slave owner.
Affleck's episode, which aired in September 2014, did not include any information about his slave-owning ancestor, although PBS has denied any censorship on its end.
The email conversation was between Sony executive Michael Lynton and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard professor and the host of Finding Your Roots. Read more...
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