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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., talked about his book Colored People: A Memoir, published by Alfred A. Knopf. It tells about the life of an African American between 1950 and 1970, when “colored” was…

To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Mount Auburn Cemetery and its African-American history, Henry Louis Gates talked about the creation of the one-volume edition of the 5-volume Africana: …

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., talked about his two new books on race with Walter Isaacson. Lincoln on Race and Slavery (Princeton University Press; illustrated edition February 11, 2009) is a comp…

Four contributors to Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books, edited by Mark Carnes and published by Oxford University Press, sat down to discuss…

Dorie McCullough Lawson introduced several fellow authors, who read selected letters from her new book, Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children, published by Doubleday. Panel…

Editors-in-chief Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham talked about African American National Biography. The collection, written by 1,000 scholars, includes the biographies of ove…

Author, playwright, and editor Sol Stein discussed his book, Native Sons: A Friendship That Created One of the Greatest Works of the Twentieth Century: Notes of A Native Son. The author ref…

Co-editprs Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham talked about their book African American Live, published by Oxford University Press. It is an encyclopedia-like compilation o…

Distinguished jurists heard a re-argument of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court case in which the Court found that Louisiana did not discriminate against Homer A. Plessy when it refu…

Professor Henry Louis Gates talked about writing African American history and answered questions from audience members. He co-authored with Professor Cornel West “The African-American Centur…

Professor Gates talked about his new book, The Bondwoman’s Narrative. He responded to audience telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail.

Henry Louis Gates talked about Thomas Jefferson’s reactions to the poetry of a Boston slave girl. Among the topics he addressed were controversy over the originality of the poems, attitudes …

Portraying African-American historical figures, participants had a conversation about African-American history in order to provide an insight into the current status of African-Americans and…

Co-editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. talked about his book Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, published by Hardcover. Mr. Gates talked about the early eff…

This forum kicked off a two-day media briefing hosted by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard AIDS Institute. The panelists pointed out that the leading …

Author Dorothy West, the last survivor of the Harlem Renaissance, was honored during a celebration commemorating her 90th birthday and her work. Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree modera…

Academics, philosophers, authors, world leaders and others gathered to discuss the past and the future of world civilization. They discussed challenges in the next century, such as technolog…

Panelists discussed the role of race and gender in society and its implications. They talked about the steps taken in the civil rights movement in relation to equal rights for African-Americ…

African-American literary figures and scholars gathered to celebrate the publication of the first Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Literary critic and historian Henry Lou…

Using their book, “The Future of the Race,” published by Alfred A. Knopf, as a basis, Professors Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West talked about the future of African-Americans. They concentr…