S1, E7: Actor Samuel L Jackson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons have each climbed to the pinnacle of their professions, yet each started life as a second-class citizen in the Jim Crow south. Using DNA to investigate family mysteries, the programme explores where they come from in Africa, and who are the white men in their family trees?

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, Ruth Simmons