The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.