Henry Louis Gates

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/16/2021
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion

  Jon Meacham reviews Henry Louis Gates's book on the Black church in America; Gates seeks to recover the traditions of social and political activism in churches against skeptics who identify religion with conservatism and quietude. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/18/2020
  

  How Racist Ideas Shaped the Era of Reconstruction

  A review of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s new book "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/12/19
  

  It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’

  Historians Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Swanson are writing a new account of the notorious 1859 auction of 429 slaves and searching for descendants.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  Stony the Road: From black triumph to racial hysteria to the ‘new Negro’

  by Howell Raines

  An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s  “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/2/19
  

  In Upcoming Documentary, Henry Louis Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction

  The 4-part documentary will air on PBS starting April 9th. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/21/19
  

  Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. On DNA Testing And Finding His Own Roots

  In an interview, Gates discusses how what he learned through his own DNA test.

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• 2/25/18
  

  The Strange Evolution of Henry Louis Gates's Estimate of Alex Haley and “Roots”

  by Philip Nobile

  Haley went from a blacklist to beatitude.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10-16-13
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. Fact-Checks "12 Years a Slave"

  "It was refreshing how closely they followed the exact events."

• SOURCE: WaPo
  8-7-13
  

  Henry Louis Gates to present a PBS series exploring 5 centuries of African-American history

  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — After a tragedy like the Trayvon Martin killing, calls routinely arise for a conversation about race.But Henry Louis Gates thinks the more direct way for structural change is through schools and their curriculum.That’s what he’s hoping will happen with “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” a six-hour PBS documentary series that traces 500 years of black history.“To tell the whole sweep of African-American history — no one’s tried to do that. That was what we were crazy enough to do,” Gates said in an interview on Wednesday....