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Brown president Ruth Simmons traces ‘Roots’

By Sarah Rodman

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 29, 2012

It seems unlikely that Ruth Simmons — the first black president of an Ivy League university and a woman with a PhD from Harvard and nearly 40 honorary doctorates — would be clamoring for cameras. But the “reality show” that Simmons did agree to appear on keeps it as real as her own DNA. The PBS program “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,” which airs Sunday nights on Channel 2, is the latest genealogy series from the well-known Harvard professor.

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