"Finding Your Roots” host and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. loves to uncover familiy histories. In honor of Family Stories Month, he explains how his childhood interest in genealogy led to a successful TV series and earned him a place in pop culture. | AARP

Shettima Umara Bulakarima is the first professor of Kanuri language and currently a professor at the Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Maiduguri. | Tudun Tsira