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Adrian Grenier Explores His Latin Heritage

Posted 05.20.2012

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Every week, Henry Louis Gates has investigated what it means to have a range of genealogical history including European and African heritage. This wee...

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WATCH: Martha Stewart Finds Her Roots

Posted 05.06.2012

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Every week, celebrities make fascinating discoveries about their family history with the help of Henry Louis Gates Jr. On his PBS series "Finding Your...

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Skip Gates Helps Samuel L. Jackson Find His Roots

Posted 04.29.2012

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Every week, The Huffington Post Black Voices tells you what Henry Louis Gates has planned on his show "Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr." ...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps Robert Downey Jr. Find His Roots

Posted 04.22.2012

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped celebrities uncover fascinating aspects of their ancestry, oftentimes discovering things they never knew before. This...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps 3 Religious Leaders Find Their Roots

Posted 04.15.2012

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This season on his PBS series, "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.," Henry Louis Gates has already helped media legend, Barbara Walters, di...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps Kevin Bacon Find His Roots

Posted 04.09.2012

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Last week, we told you about how renowned Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., helped media legend Barbara Walters uncover aspects of her family ...

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WATCH: Henry Louis Gates Helps Barbara Walters Find Her Roots

Posted 04.02.2012

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Renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped a number of celebrities discover integral aspects of their family origins, now he's taking...

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Public Academic: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Follows Alex Haley's Roots

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.20.2012

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Admiring the television series Roots as a boy, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores a passion for genetics and genealogies in a new PBS series, Finding Your Roots, to start this Sunday.

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Skip Gates' New Book On Black History

www.philly.com | Posted 11.23.2011

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Coffee-table books are supposed to be heavy, on photos and in pounds. This latest history of black life in America by Henry Louis Gates Jr. is both, w...

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Paper Rejects Negative Review Of New Malcolm X Bio

The Washington Post | David Montgomery, Thursday, April 14, 8:19 PM | Posted 06.15.2011

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A blistering review of historian Manning Marable’s best-selling new biography of Malcolm X was rejected this week by TheRoot.com, a daily online m...

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ART ESSAY: Henry Louis Gates Jr On The Image Of The Black In Western Art

theroot.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The numerous contacts that Greeks, Romans and other Europeans had with people of African origin have been portrayed in art for thousands of years. The...

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Black History Month: Are Whites Entitled To Write Black History?

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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Open Road Media recently released William Styron's "Confessions of Nat Turner" as an eBook, hoping to "reach a new generation of readers." The 1967 ...

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6 Million African Americans And The U.S. Immigration Story

Posted 05.25.2011

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Between 1915 and 1970, 6 million African Americans left the only homes they'd known in the American South in search of better lives and opportunities ...

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World Racism: Summer of Love and Hate

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who are like minded -- for better or for worst.

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Who's Your (Irish) Daddy? Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reflects On An Unknown Irish Ancestor

The Root | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Posted 11.17.2011

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In one of my favorite Malcolm X speeches, the brilliant rhetorician asks, "What's your name? It isn't Smith or Jones or Bunche [as in Ralph] or Powell...

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"Black Royalty"?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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The demise in succession of three African American figures of colossal stature on the eve of the new decade caused me to wonder anew about this designation, "black royalty."

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Neiman Marcus Goes Budget

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

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The extravagant offerings in Neiman Marcus' 83rd annual catalog do not disappoint. Restrictions and exclusions apply to Goldman Sachs employees and anyone named Madoff.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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The Professor, the Policeman, and the Judge

Robin Lakoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that the Gates-Crowley incident is beginning to fade from prominence, it is time to ask about the takeaway: what should we learn from this "teachable moment"?

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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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Justin Barrett, Boston Police Officer, Suspended For Calling Gates A "Jungle Monkey" In E-mail

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest continues: the Boston Police Department has suspended an officer named Justin Barrett for using a ra...

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Black-Centric Website Edited By Gates Hit With Racist Comments

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 05.25.2011

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t was probably inevitable that in the furor over the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., some people would resort publicly to the u...

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Lawrence O'Donnell: The Stupidity Of The Gates Arrest

TIME | Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here is what the absurdist, typically stilted police language of Sergeant James Crowley's official report on his arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Lou...

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Gates: It's Time To 'Move On' From Arrest

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the enc...

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Gates and Crowley: Through a Racist, Classist Lens Darkly

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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If we make the assumption that racism was in play in this event, but that Crowley was not necessarily a racist, we might also assume that class and social status was at play as well.

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