David Wilson, meet David Wilson.

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Three years ago, David Wilson began making a documentary about race and his search for his family's history. Along the way, he made a discovery that startled him: He found a living descendant of the family that had owned his family as slaves--and his name was also David Wilson. So Wilson, a 31-year-old Brooklynite, took a camera and headed south to North Carolina, where his slave ancestors worked on a tobacco plantation, and where the other David Wilson still lives. In the film, Meeting David Wilson, which will be shown on MSNBC on April 11, he finds the grave of his great-grandfather, Reuben Wilson, who was born a slave and then founded a black church after Emancipation. He also spends a day working on a tobacco farm as his ancestors did. And he meets the other David Wilson and asks him if he feels any responsibility for slavery. "He said he didn't feel responsible for what happened back in those times, but that he does feel responsible for being a part of the solution," Wilson says. "I think that's fair."