Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual. He currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Gates has been host for four seasons of the series Finding Your Roots on PBS.

References

Other websites
 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard Faculty webpage

 The Root
 Wonders of the African World Program with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – PBS
  (after Cornel West and K.A. Appiah left for Princeton)

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