Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.