Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-five books and created twenty-one documentary films, including Finding Your Roots. His newest book is The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

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To Understand America, You Need to Understand the Black Church
The Black Church has played a vital role in shaping American history. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on telling the story of its past and present.
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How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism
Even descendants of black heroes of Reconstruction lost the memory of their ancestors’ heroic achievements, writes Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

To Understand America, You Need to Understand the Black Church

How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism