Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has authored or co-authored over 20 books and created 15 documentary films. Gates’ PBS series include “The Black Church,” “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” — which earned Emmy, Peabody, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and NAACP Image awards — and “Gospel,” his latest. He is a member of the first class awarded MacArthur genius grants and the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gates is a board member of NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, Library of America and The Studio Museum of Harlem.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. — one of America’s leading public intellectuals and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard — explains the i...
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