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Understanding America's legacy of slavery

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Ben Affleck took to social media to explain himself after admitting that he pressured the PBS show "Finding Your Roots" to omit news about one of his ancestors who held more than two dozen people in slavery. Salamishah Tillet, Whitney Dow, Thomas Sugrue and Raul Reyes join to discuss.

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