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2007:

  1. A conversation with Henry Louis GatesJr.
    A conversation with Henry Louis GatesJr.

    with Henry Louis Gates on Jan 22, 2007

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2006:

  1. A conversation with Dr. Henry Louis GatesJr.
    A conversation with Dr. Henry Louis GatesJr.

    with Henry Louis Gates on Jan 23, 2006

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2004:

  1. A conversation with scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    A conversation with scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    with Henry Louis Gates on Jan 26, 2004

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2002:

  1. A conversation with historian Henry Louis GatesJr.
    A conversation with historian Henry Louis GatesJr.

    with Henry Louis Gates on Apr 16, 2002

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1999:

  1. An interview with Henry Louis GatesJr.
    An interview with Henry Louis GatesJr.

    with Henry Louis Gates on Oct 13, 1999

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  2. A discussion about the Encarta Africana CD-ROM
    A discussion about the Encarta Africana CD-ROM

    with Kwame Appiah and Henry Louis Gates on Jan 26, 1999

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    19 min
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1997:

  1. A conversation about African-American literature
    A conversation about African-American literature

    with Jamaica Kincaid, Henry Louis Gates and Nellie McKay on Feb 27, 1997

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    25 min
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1996:

  1. A discussion about race
    A discussion about race

    with Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates on Apr 12, 1996

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    55 min
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. is a literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual.

Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is Chair of the African and African American Studies Department and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

As a prominent black intellectual, Gates has focused throughout his career not only on his research and teaching but on building academic institutions to study black culture. Additionally, he has worked to bring about social, educational, and intellectual equality for black Americans and has written pieces in “The New York Times” that defend rap music and an article in “Sports Illustrated” that criticizes black youth culture for glorifying basketball over education. In 1992, he received a George Polk Award for his social commentary in “The New York Times”.

In 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. He currently chairs the Fletcher Foundation.

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