Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Actor · born 16 September 1950 · Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause

The Gettysburg Address

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

John Lewis: Good Trouble

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Not Black Enough

Birth of a Movement

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Nas: Time Is Illmatic

A Place of Our Own

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Color Adjustment

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Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History

Great Migrations: A People on the Move

Gospel

Making Black America

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

Watchmen

Who Killed Malcolm X?

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Africa's Great Civilizations

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Finding Your Roots

America: The Story of Us

Faces of America

America Beyond the Color Line

Wonders of the African World

The Simpsons

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