Most African-Americans have some degree of mixed race, according
to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. According to noted
educator Henry Louis Gates, there are no Black Americans with
100 percent African ancestry. “We have never tested an African-
American who is 100 percent African,” Gates said, speaking at
Grambling State University. “The average African-American is 77
percent Black or African, 17 percent European and less than 5
percent Native American." Gates is a professor at Harvard
University and director of the school’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
for African and African-American Research. Gates was the host
and co-producer of the PBS show “African American Lives" and
“African American Lives 2.” In those series, the ancestry of
more than a dozen African-Americans were traced using
genealogical and historic tools in addition to DNA testing.
Gates is continuing his look at ancestry with the new PBS show
“Finding Your Roots.” While at Grambling, Gates asked the group
of students at the historically Black u