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On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home by local police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who was responding to a 911 caller's report of men breaking and entering the residence. The arrest initiated a series of events that unfolded under the spotlight of the international ...
This Week in Blackness originally published the controversial "Notes From a Phantom Negro: Skip Gates, Please Sit Down" [3] discussing the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. which was then republished by Salon.com [4] The blog also originally posted "Message From The Average Black Person" [5] which later was published by The Huffington Post [6 ...
Gates was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia, [2] to Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates (1916–1987) and Henry Louis Gates Sr. (c. 1913 –2010). He grew up in neighboring Piedmont. His father worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor, while his mother cleaned houses. [3]
Gates once feared getting kicked out of Harvard University. ... time — "I threw up and passed out that night in the Lakeside teachers’ lounge" — and dropping acid during senior skip day ...
A screenshot of a headline shared on Facebook claims Japanese prosecutors are working to arrest Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally ...
Gates, Obama, and the arresting officer meeting at the White House to discuss the incident. In July 2009, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his home; the incident garnered media attention throughout the United States. The mayor of Cambridge, E. Denise Simmons, said that she hoped that the result would be a "teachable moment". [6]
During an episode of The View on Tuesday, January 2, the historian and host of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr., appeared on-air to give Goldberg, 68, some shocking news.
A scene in which Sanderson arrests Tom Haverford in his own van mirrors the real-life controversial 2009 arrest of Henry Louis Gates. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by 4.22 million households, an 800,000-household drop from the previous week's season premiere, "Pawnee Zoo".