LeVar Burton learned his family tree includes a Confederate soldier, but says this could be his entry point to communicate with white America. On the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. explained to Burton that the show uses “every tool available,” including a genealogist who combed through paper trails stretching back hundreds of years, and DNA …
According to the National Football League, 96 of its players tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. There were an additional 10 positive tests among players over the weekend, bringing the total to 106 players on the league's Reserve/Covid-19 list since Christmas. "We're entering a new phase of the pandemic, different than we've seen before," said the NFL's chief medical officer, …
