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Hosted by Tami Dee Garcia · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 21 episodes
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Roots Renewed is a podcast about heritage, identity, diaspora, and the ongoing work of reconnecting with who we are and where we come from, especially when parts of the story feel missing, interrupted, or complicated. Hosted by Tami Dee Garcia, the show centers conversations with people from diverse backgrounds who are intentionally navigating identity, heritage, and culture, whether for themselves, their families, or their communities. Each episode explores the influences, histories, and turning points that shape how they reconnect through culture, family, leadership, healing, accountability, or reinvention. This podcast is for anyone navigating identity, diaspora, cultural shifts, or reinvention at any stage of life. You don’t need all the answers. You just need a place to start.
Tami Dee Garcia hosts Roots Renewed, a society show with 21 episodes published.
Tami has heard the question her whole life. Black woman, Spanish last name, no Spanish. People decided that meant she wasn't really Dominican. In this solo episode, she tells her full heritage story for the first time. T
At 13 years old, Aselefech Evans told someone in DC that she was Oromo. They told her not to say that. She did not understand why then. It took 30 years -- and a lot of pain -- to understand the political suppression beh
Natalie Preddie always knew she was Jamaican. She cooked the food, learned the anthem as a little girl, said Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica when nobody else in her family was paying attention. And she still carried guilt that s
Greg Maurice moved from Haiti to Brooklyn at 13. Black Americans told him he was not black. Haitians back home called him a Yankee. He was not enough for either side. So he kept choosing Haiti anyway — in the language, t
Hilary Giovale was 40 years old when she opened a book at her parents' house and found the names of people her family had enslaved, each one with a dollar amount next to their name. That night changed everything. She spe
Melat Terefe grew up watching her grandmother wear tattoos that told stories of beauty, protection, and strength. When her grandmother passed away, Melat turned those exact patterns into the foundation of her Ethiopian f
Hugo Maynard grew up in the worst part of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, built a pharmaceutical company, won an Olympic medal, and acquired everything the world told him to want. Then he sat in his Bentley and felt
Kim Lawson took a DNA test after her mother passed — hoping to find family. What she found was a Nigerian family, a Ghanaian queen mother who looked exactly like her, royal roots on both sides of her family, and a Ghanai
His mother gave him her rice-and-beans recipe. She never gave him the measurements. He has tried to get it right ever since. Roberto Hannibal grew up in New Jersey while spending his summers in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas
Tamara Buzyna Adams always knew her grandmother's diaries were there. Five volumes. Over 100 years old. Written in Russian by an 11-year-old girl living on a steamship in the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War. Nobod
Marla Teyolia grew up four miles from the Mexican border, the only one in her family born in the United States. In her 20s, she was meditating behind a locked bedroom door so her mother would not see her. Thirty years la
She code-switched so completely that one day a childhood friend said — "I forgot you were Chinese." Lisa Dare grew up Chinese at home and white everywhere else. In this episode she talks about what it cost to fit in, wha
Part 1 was the reckoning. Part 2 is what you do with it. Natalie Berthe found out her family were active participants in the administration of the Belgian Congo. In Part 2 she talks about reconciling love for her family
She was born in the United States. Her parents are Panamanian. She goes back every year. She cooks the food, plays the music, and speaks the language in her house. She has done everything right. And then her four-year-ol
She spent her life calling out racism and fighting for justice. Then she found out her family were the colonizers she had been fighting against her entire life. Natalie Berthe is Belgian and Italian, born in the United S
Chlarissa Harrison can only trace her family back to her grandparents. Slavery erased what came before. And yet she moves through life as if her ancestors are present every day. In this episode, she talks about grief as
She was adopted at birth and spent decades not knowing where she was from. At 21, a one-page letter told her she was Ecuadorian. Then a DNA test connected her to a nephew her husband had known for ten years. In this epis
Some people talk about reconnecting the African diaspora. Today's guest has spent thirty years actually doing it. Dr. Omowale Crenshaw grew up in San Francisco with deep Louisiana Creole roots. He went to Howard Universi
Nobody was making room for designers from the African diaspora. So, she did. Anika Hobbs is the founder of Nubian Hueman in Washington DC, a retail space centered on designers from the African diaspora. She built it in 2
MarieYolaine grew up between two worlds: Haitian at home, American everywhere else. At six years old, a teacher couldn't pronounce her name and gave her a new one. She answered to it for decades. It wasn't until she went
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Roots Renewed is hosted by Tami Dee Garcia. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 21 episodes.
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