Lionel Richie tracks his great-grandfather from slavery to civil rights activist FULL EPISODE

Lionel Richie was incredibly close to his grandmother, yet mystery surrounds the identity of her father because she would never talk about him. Lionel unravels the remarkable life story of his great grandfather, John Louis Brown - tracking his life from slavery to freedom, through the optimism of Reconstruction, and the disillusionment and broken promises of the Jim Crow era, charting almost 100 years of black history.



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