The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press.
 Editors are Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University.
 He is also Director of Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard.
Jan Darwin Hutchins (born 1949) is an American TV and radio journalist, producer and media consultant.
 Hutchins was born in Danville, Illinois and grew up in Ohio.
 He studied at Yale University, graduating with a B.A. in History in 1971.
 He started his career in 1972 as a sports journalist at the WIIC TV station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 After moving to California, Hutchins worked from 1974 to 1990 as a sportscaster on the KPIX TV channel in San Francisco and at KRON (Channel 4).
 In 1981, he joined KICU (Channel 36) in San Jose when the San Francisco Bay Area independent television station initiated its news broadcasts, co-anchoring the prime time news program with Ysabel Duron until 1991.
 From 1993-1995, Hutchins served as the director of community development for the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
 He hosted sports, news and public affairs programs for San Francisco area radio stations (KGO, KCBS, KNBR) and from 1997 to 2000 worked at American Champion Media, which, along with KTEH-TV (Channel 54), produced "Adventures with Kanga Roddy", a children's television series about emotional intelligence that aired on PBS and starred Pat Morita, Jennifer Montana and Karen Lott.
 The show won Northern California Area EMMY Awards in 1999 and 2000.
 From 1996-1999 Hutchins served on the city council of Los Gatos, CA both as a vice-mayor and mayor and later founded a local yoga center.
 He lives currently in San Jose where he works as a media consultant.
The Root is an English-language American online magazine of African-American culture launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham, and was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group.
Peniel E. Joseph (born 1973) is an American historian, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University.
 He is the founder of the "Black Power Studies" subfield of American History and American Civil Rights History.
 He is a frequent commentator on CSPAN, NPR, and PBS's NewsHour.
 He has also appeared on NBC's Morning Joe, and the Colbert Report.
 He is the recipient of a number of fellowships, and most recently at the Hutchins Center at the W.E.B. du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University.
David Bindman (born 1940) is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard since 2010.
Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen (*Feb 16, 1948), a multi-lingual scholar, translator, editor and activist, is an Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; an activist against female genital mutilation (FGM) and professor of English Emerita at the University of Maryland, University College.
 Having received her PhD in 1979 from Cornell University, she is most known for combining her advocacy against FGM with her academic scholarship in comparative literature.
 She has published peer-reviewed and popular articles and book chapters, edited four books, launched UnCUT/VOICES Press in 2009 and founded "Feminist Europa Review of Books" (1998-2010).
 Her most notable works to date are "Empathy and Rage.
 Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature" and " Waging Empathy.
 Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and the Global Movement to Ban FGM."
 Alice Walker expressed appreciation for the text that shows worldwide solidarity with the novelist's literary abolition efforts in the early nineties.
 Levin has also teamed up with Maria Kiminta and photographer Britta Radike to publish a memoir and sourcebook, "Kiminta.
 A Maasai's Fight against Female Genital Mutilation."
The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering multidisciplinary and multicultural social science research and criticism about race.
 The journal was established in 2004 and is published by Cambridge University Press for the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
 The journal covers a range of disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, communications, public policy, psychology, linguistics, and history.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, 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.
 He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is a branch of the Denver Public Library in Denver, Colorado, in the United States that serves the Five Points neighborhood.
 It is also a research library with collections focusing on the history of African Americans in Denver and the American West.
 The library was conceived by Denver's first African American mayor, Wellington Webb, and his wife Wilma Webb, who observed that the history of African-Americans in Denver and the American West was under-represented.
 The library was envisioned in 1999 and designated the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in honor of Omar Blair, the first black president of the Denver school board, and Elvin Caldwell, the first black city council member.
 Ground breaking occurred in early 2002.

Question: The Root was launched by which Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard?
Answer: Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.