Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

We've published books like Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, and Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Ethics of Identity — treatises that marshal humane nuance against prejudice, essentialism, ...

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., author Ron Chernow and filmmaker/cultural critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be in Wilmington Saturday, April 14 to receive the 2018 Common Weath Awards. The awards were created by the late Ralph Hayes, a Coca-Cola executive with a widely varied career and a PNC ...

At this Saturday's black-tie, invite-only gala at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, PNC Bank will honor former Vice President Joe Biden, historical biographer Ron Chernow, and filmmaker and journalist Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. "If you look at the list of whose received the awards in prior years, it emboldens ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. participates in the "Finding Your Roots" panel during the PBS portion of the 2017 Summer TCA's at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, July 31, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP). Richard Shotwell ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also chairman of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Send your questions about tracing your own roots to ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. connected the founding of Fayetteville State 150 years ago and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to call for “new moments of hope” in the struggle for justice and equality. Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. connected the founding of Fayetteville State University 150 years ago ...

As Fayetteville State strides into the future, officials will take a brief pause to reflect on the university's past 151 years. This week, the university will mark its founding anniversary with celebrations, including a talk by nationally renowned historian Henry Lewis Gates and the opening of a time capsule buried ...

(KUTV) Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the host of the PBS show, "Finding Your Roots." He is also a filmmaker, historian, professor, and author. He was recently Utah for the RootsTech Conference, and revealed to Shauna Lake how he got the inspiration for "Finding Your Roots." Gates visited the Family ...

It initially launched in 2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Graham. Gates is known by some as the Harvard professor arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in 2009. That arrest led to then-President Barack Obama's famous beer summit with Gates and the arresting officer, Cambridge Police Sgt. James ...

A white mother and black daughter encounter the genealogical “brick wall” so many people face while researching African-American families during slavery. Dear Professor Gates: I have worked very hard to trace back the ancestry of my adopted daughter Rasa Braswell, who is African American.

Bus trip. The Kinston/Lenoir County Alumni Chapter of Fayetteville State University will sponsor a bus to Fayetteville State University on April 5 for the Founder's Day Convocation and to celebrate the university's 150th anniversary. The keynote speaker will be Henry Louis Gates Jr of Harvard University.

Fans of Professor Henry Louis Gates' genealogy program, Finding Your Roots, witness how surprised guests are to learn of their backgrounds. Heritage stories are often ignored or wrongly reported. Badly told genealogies are probably due to assumptions, faulty memories or misunderstood remarks ...

President Barack Obama wasn't so far off with the beer summit he staged between African-American professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and James Crowley, the white police officer who arrested Gates for entering his own house after a neighbor called 911. Building better relationships, professionally and ...

A decade ago there was no point even considering researching your roots if you weren't prepared to spend days, months, or potentially years trawling through dusty registers and reels of microfilm. But now, people just sit at their kitchen table on an otherwise unexceptional weekday morning and drool ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been a leading figure in the field of African and African American studies for a generation. 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the landmark African American National Biography, which continues to grow online on the AASC. In honor of Black History Month, ...

Free hot dogs, popcorn and soda will be be available beginning at 5 p.m., with the film at 5:30 p.m. In the series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. embarks on a journey through the last 50 years of African-American history in this Black History Month presentation. The series is presented by Royal Neighbors of America ...

SALT LAKE CITY — One of the pivotal events that led Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to become the host of the PBS television program, "Finding Your Roots," took place in Utah one Saturday morning in the early 1990s. Gates was in town for a speaking engagement that afternoon and had some ...

Now, I may need to call in a favor to Henry Louis Gates (who my mother grew up with in Piedmont, West Virginia) to connect the rest of the dots back to Ghana, but so far I'm impressed by word-of-mouth family info and Google results. Like the powerful vibranium pulsing beneath Wakanda, our roots are our ...

Other researchers are working on modules for undergraduate college students and testing the results at Spelman College and Morehouse College. Henry Louis Gates Jr., PBS "Finding Your Roots" show host and Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor, Harvard University, is a collaborator on the project.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also chairman of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Advertisement. Send your questions about tracing your ...

For some whites, even a smidgen of African ancestry was commonly referred to as "the taint," said Harvard University African and African American studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "That said it all: that it was something to be ashamed of, something dark and dirty." Gates, whose PBS show "Finding ...

Arts & Humanities. African-American folklore inspires meeting of the minds. Harvard scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar celebrate their collaborative book project " ...

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Pantheon). This compendium takes its title from a 1957 book by the Jamaican-born American journalist and historian Joel A. Rogers, which was marketed as a black version of Robert Ripley's “Believe It or Not!” Gates observes that Rogers ...

After discovering the PBS series, “Finding Your Roots,” I became hooked on the family stories that would unfold during each 52-minute episode. The host of the show, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., methodically outlines the details of the three celebrity guests' family trees by piecing together documents, including ...

Philip Nobile is an investigative reporter who has written for several national publications. He lives in Scarsdale, NY. In 1998, Dr. Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr., a University Professor and Director of Harvard's Center for African and African American Research, explained in the Boston Globe why he excluded ...