Who Do You Think You Are? USA: Lionel Richie

Series in which American celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past. Singer-songwriter Lionel Richie tries to find out more about his great-grandfather, whose identity has always been a mystery due to his grandmother's reticence. As Lionel unravels the story of John Louis Brown across nearly 100 years of black history, from slavery to freedom, from reconstruction to the early civil rights movement, he finds that his view of the family black sheep is challenged