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Finding Your Roots

a young man and an older woman walk down the street together
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Andy Samberg gives his Berkeley mother a gift: the truth about her birth parents

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel January 11, 2019

This article originally appeared on Berkeleyside. Margie Samberg knew from the time she was 7 that she had been adopted. The revelation came in the early 1950s when she was […]

Scarlett Johansson learning about her ancestry on “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” (Screenshot/“Finding Your Roots”)
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Watching ‘Finding Your Roots,’ family learns they are related to Scarlett Johansson

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier November 3, 2017March 23, 2018
Bernie Sanders (left) and Larry David appearing together in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2016
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Larry David and Bernie Sanders share some ‘Roots’? Pinch me!

Eric GoldbrenerLarry Rosen by Eric Goldbrener and Larry Rosen October 17, 2017
Sen. Bernie Sanders features in the season premiere of "Finding Your Roots," which airs on PBS, Oct. 3.
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‘Finding Your Roots’: Bernie gets choked up about a relative who died defying Nazis

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman September 29, 2017March 23, 2018

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