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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. [1]
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson.First published in 1859, [1] it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [2] and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates (London: Allison & Busby, 1984). [3]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...
Dr. Henry Louis Gates of "Finding Your Roots" speaks during the PBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour 2019 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 29, 2019 in ...
African American Lives 2 premiered in February 2008, again hosted by Gates. This second set of episodes traced the ancestry of performers Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, Tom Joyner, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, theologian Peter Gomes, athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, poet Maya Angelou, Bliss Broyard (the daughter of writer Anatole Broyard) and publisher Linda Johnson Rice (the daughter of publisher John ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. has a running list of dream guests for the show "Finding Your Roots," and TODAY's own Al Roker tops the list. The host of the PBS series stopped by the 3rd Hour of TODAY on ...
The novel was discovered in 1982 by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who documented it as the first African American novel published in the United States. Born a free person of color (free Negro) in New Hampshire, Wilson was orphaned when young and bound until the age of 18 as an indentured servant. She struggled to make a living after that ...
I feel like I know myself even more," she told host Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the end of the episode. Ciara's DNA records revealed a mystery regarding her maternal great-grandfather, a man named ...