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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", [1] [2] 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.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is a six-part documentary miniseries written and presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It aired for the first time on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the fall of 2013, beginning with episode 1, "The Black Atlantic (1500–1800)", on October 22, 8–9 p.m. ET on PBS, and every consecutive Tuesday through to episode 6, "A More Perfect Union (1968 ...
Canon: Camera model: Canon EOS 50D: Author: Picasa: Exposure time: 1/200 sec (0.005) F-number: f/4: ISO speed rating: 200: Date and time of data generation: 19:33, 18 July 2013: Lens focal length: 105 mm: Short title: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross: Headline: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross: Image title: Henry Louis ...
Gates's account of the events first appeared in The Root on July 20. According to the statement, Gates saw Crowley at the door as he was speaking to the Harvard Real Estate Office to have his front door fixed. When he opened the front door, Crowley immediately asked him to step outside. Gates did not comply and asked Crowley why he was there.
Meanwhile, a white-eyed woman reads from the ancient tome "Eibon," prophesizing the opening of one of the seven gates. Decades later, in 1981, Liza Merrill inherited the hotel and moved from New York City to refurbish and reopen it. A worker glimpses a white-eyed woman through a window and falls off his scaffolding.
A number of the Jefferson Lectures have led to books, including Holton's The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens, [20] John Hope Franklin's Racial Equality in America, [21] Henry Louis Gates' The Trials of Phillis Wheatley [22] and Jaroslav Pelikan's The Vindication of Tradition. [23]
Canon is a 1964 National Film Board of Canada animated short co-directed by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro that offers a visual representation of the canon musical form through three animated segments.
Reviewer Hortense Morton of the San Francisco Examiner wrote: "'Devil's Canyon' is as violent as a volcano and director Alfred Werker has polished every facet of the Frederick Hazlitt Brennan screen play until life within the walls of a prison in Territorial Arizona becomes just as realistic as any law-abiding citizen can handle in one dose." [7]