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Finding Your Roots
Roy Wood Jr.’s is DNA Cousins with Congressman John Lewis
“He was always nice to me.” Roy Wood Jr. discovers his DNA cousin match is one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights movement, the great John Lewis
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