Biography of prolific author and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., with interviews and a bibliography of his work.

Black History Month - Biography Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950- ) Educator, scholar, literary critic, writer What we're trying to do at Harvard is to create, well, quite frankly, what I hope will be the greatest center of intellection concerning persons of African descent in the Old World and the New World. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most prominent and well-known academics in the United ...

BLACKLASH All prejudices are not equal. But that doesn't mean there's no comparison between the predicaments of gays and blacks. By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For some veterans of the civil-rights era, it's a matter of stolen prestige. It is a misappropriation for members of the gay leadership to identify the April 25 march on Washington with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 mobilization, one ...

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