On the latest episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. revealed that Hostin is only 7 percent indigenous Puerto Rican and that her ancestors "likely" owned slaves.

1. Sunny Hostin Learns Her
Ancestors Likely Owned
Slaves on Finding Your Roots
HomeTV Sunny Hostin Learns Her Ancestors Likely Owned Slaves on
Finding Your Roots

3. Sunny Hostin has gained a new perspective on her past.
On the latest episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS, Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. revealed that Hostin is only 7 percent indigenous Puerto
Rican and that her ancestors “likely” owned slaves.
“Our researchers discovered that her third great-grandfather, Fermín,
was the son of a merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade,
and Fermín himself owned at least one human being,” explained Gates
Jr. “What’s more, moving back on this line, we found that it originates
in Galicia, Spain — evidence of Sunny’s deeper ancestry and her family
ties to Spain’s colonial past.”
This week’s #FindingYourRoots guest, #SunnyHostin shares how her
politically-active parents inspired her to want to make an impact on
the world from a young age.
Tune in tonight for the all-new episode
of #FindingYourRoots featuring Sunny Hostin at 8/7c only
on @pbs! pic.twitter.com/pEynl51p18
- Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) February 6, 2024
When asked about her “tangible connection to Spain,” Hostin noted
that her husband, Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, is part Spanish and part
Haitian.

4. “I’m a little bit in shock,” she continued. “I just always thought of
myself as Puerto Rican, you know, half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think my
family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.” Hostin said that
she thinks it is “great” that she can also share this information with her
kids.

5. “I think it’s actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have
shared roots, so I do appreciate that, and I think it’s great for our
children to know this information. I guess it’s a fact of life that this is
how some people made their living, on the backs of others,” the
television personality said.
Elsewhere in the episode, The View co-host learned that her third-
great grandfather from her dad’s side was born into slavery in 1835.
Learning and talking about her past is something Hostin has often
been vocal about. Apart from writing the 2020 memoir, I Am These
Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds,
Hostin opened up about being Afro-Latino in February 2022.

6. “I admire that there are folks, especially in media, as well as film, that
are representing their Blackness and embracing it. That’s something
that has just happened [in] my view in the past few years. And what’s
nice is I’m tired of being alone in that,” she told PEOPLE. I’m no longer
alone and it’s because of young people like Ariana [DeBose].
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