The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously docum…

Henry Louis Gates
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The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
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The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

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