finding your roots

Growing Up in the Castro


Comedian and actress Margaret Cho talks about her experience living as a young adult in San Francisco’s Castro District during the late 1970s. Watch video from Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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  • Mike "Ski" Wekarski

    May 4, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    Very interesting story, and being deported and splitting up family, not fun.

  • Judy Woo

    May 6, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    love love margaret cho’s segment, eww why would u have a criminal like martha stewart on ur show!

  • Mary Yamada

    December 5, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    Would the video have been close captioned if it had been available?
    Thanks..

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About the Series

The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premieres nationally Sundays, March 25 – May 20 at 8 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).

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