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Today we bust the myth that Jefferson Ave. is desolate, without any strong businesses. If there's anyone with insight into what it takes to build a business on Buffalo's East side it's Herb Bellamy Jr. The son of a serial entrepreneur who once owned 20 business mostly along Jefferson, Bellamy is the founder of the Buffalo Black Achievers Museum, a career training center, and two low income or disabled housing facilities with mixed use retail space. He’s also an insurance broker and financial planner. He talks with Dave Debo. Then Thomas O'Neil-White takes it further with Rob Cornelius. He's in a unique position to talk about community needs, because of his extensive work on the East side-- with Juneteenth, organizing school supply drives with Conway the Machine and is both the school coordinator at Continental School of Beauty and a KeyBank Branch Manager.

In April of 1960, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously described 11 am on Sunday as “the most segregated hour in America”, suggesting that while churches are open to all races, few have true integration. Does the problem still exist? DeMar Dowell is the founder of God’s Dream Inc., a ministry and DEI consultancy in Buffalo that works to bring Black and White people together on specific spiritual projects that he hopes will “build bridges of diversity .. and generate opportunities that change lives.” Then a wide-ranging talk with Jim Anderson, a long time civil rights and peace activist talking about social justice, anti- militarism, housing and the modern protest movement.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family history of Sheryl Sandberg.

Christiane Amanpour is left “gobsmacked” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Robert Downey, Jr. learns about his ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Harry Connick Jr. learns about his ancestor, an infamous 18th-century American privateer.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks with Margarett Cooper about her remarkable ancestry.

Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal discuss what they know of their origins.

Henry Lewis Gates Jr. reveals the first member of Eric's family to come to Kansas.

Henry Lewis Gates Jr. reveals a shocking story about Mia's grandparents.