Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual. He currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Gates has been host for four seasons of the series Finding Your Roots on PBS.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gates with his Peabody Award for his documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Born	(1950-09-16) September 16, 1950 Keyser, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Author, documentary filmmaker, essayist, literary critic, professor
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A.) Clare College, Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Genre	Essay, history, literature
Subject	African American Studies
Notable works	The Signifying Monkey
Spouse	Sharon Lynn Adams (m. 1979; div. 1999)
Children	2

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Media

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  Photo of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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  Gates, Sgt. James Crowley and President Barack Obama toast at the start of their meeting in the White House Rose Garden, July 30, 2009

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  Gates speaks on a panel about race in America on the Understanding Our World Stage at the National Book Festival on August 31, 2019

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  Gates accepts the Peabody Award for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Other websites

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard Faculty webpage
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. on IMDb
• The Root
• Wonders of the African World Program with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – PBS
• "Henry Louis Gates Jr. to continue at Harvard". Harvard Gazette. December 5, 2002. Archived from the original on January 1, 2003. Retrieved May 12, 2017. (after Cornel West and K.A. Appiah left for Princeton)