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# Mean Streets Preview
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/trailers/mean-streets-preview/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:11:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T14:29:27.000Z
- Description: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps family trees of comedian Tracy Morgan & actor Anthony Ramos.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Finding Your Roots, #ZZZ_Show_855aaf88-37bb-4949-872a-c4646a613145, #v1.5, #ZZZ_Trailer_9e5ddc88-8cd5-4d1f-8384-dfab1f2c1d14, #trailer

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.