During a special presentation, Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal has his ancestral DNA analyze.

The panel features Rick Kittles, Charmaine Royal, Karla FC Holloway, Alondra Nelson, and Mark Anthony Neal. Kittles is the leader of African Ancestry and the Director of the Center for Population Genetics at the University of Arizona. Royal an Associate Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Director of Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference (GRID) at Duke University. Holloway is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies. Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Dean of Social Science at Columbia University.