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# Mean Streets
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/episode/mean-streets-2/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:11:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T18:00:21.000Z
- Description: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps family trees of comedian Tracy Morgan & actor Anthony Ramos.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Finding Your Roots, Season 10, Episode 8, #ZZZ_Episode_ca6a1073-32e1-4c53-a5fe-92ac0ae5ed36, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_855aaf88-37bb-4949-872a-c4646a613145, #v1.16

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the family trees of comedian Tracy Morgan & actor Anthony Ramos—two native New Yorkers whose roots stretch to surprising places and contain inspiring stories. Moving from the Canary Islands to battlefields in Europe & Asia to slave plantations in Virginia, long-lost records reveal ancestors who laid the groundwork for Tracy and Anthony’s success by fighting to survive.