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

Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, on Jan. 12, 2018.

To Understand America, You Need to Understand the Black Church

We are living through a traumatic inflection point in our American story. M...

We are living through a traumatic inflection point in our American story. Millions of our fellow citizens are hurting from a series of pandemics. Our public health system, our economic fate, and issues of racial...

A group portrait of the first African-American legislators in the 41st and 42nd Congress

How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

Even descendants of black heroes of Reconstruction have lost the memory of ...

Even descendants of black heroes of Reconstruction have lost the memory of their ancestors’ heroic achievements