Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
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📺 TV Shows
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
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2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
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2026
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
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2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
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2025
Making Black America: Through the Grapevine
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2022
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
executive_producer
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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2021
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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2019
Africa's Great Civilizations
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2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
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2016
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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2013
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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2012
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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2010
