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# Anchormen
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/episode/anchormen/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:11:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T18:01:21.000Z
- Description: Journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones uncover the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Finding Your Roots, Season 9, Episode 9, #ZZZ_Episode_d6c2cf00-6905-47f9-9790-15447069ad94, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_855aaf88-37bb-4949-872a-c4646a613145, #v1.16

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.