Thursday February 9, 2012 3:00 p.m.
T. H. Harris Auditorium
Grambling State University
Grambling, Louisiana
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author most
recently of Black in Latin America (New York University Press, 2011) and Faces
of America (New York University Press, 2010), which expand on his critically
acclaimed PBS documentaries.
Professor Gates is
Editor-in-Chief of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine focusing on issues of interest
to the African American community and written from an African American
perspective.
Professor Gates has received 51 honorary degrees, as well as a
MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” In addition, Professor Gates was named one
of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997, and one of Ebony
magazine’s “100 Most Influential Black Americans” in 2005, and he was selected
for Ebony’s “Power 150″ list for 2009 and its “Power 100″ list for 2010. He
received a National Humanities Medal in 1998, and in 1999 was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 2006, he was inducted into the Sons of the American
Revolution after tracing his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who
fought in the Revolutionary War.
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