Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...

So proposes the legendary Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his searching new book, “The Black Box: Writing the Race ...

Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, historian, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and ...

“I know our stories speak to people because I am stopped everywhere by old and young; white and Black; Christian, and Hindu, and they say, ‘We love your show,'” Dr. Henry Louis ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., 73, is a writer, cultural historian and director of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African ...

While the Harvard professor was hugely surprised by the docuseries' nomination, he tells PEOPLE he understands why it's now being recognized When Henry Louis Gates, Jr. woke up this morning ...

O ne of the most memorable reactions Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. had from one of his guests on "Finding Your Roots" came this past season from comedian Iliza Shlesinger.While her great grandmother ...

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Watch 'Abbott Elementary' star Sheryl Lee Ralph discover her ancestor was a free Black man in the mid 1800s on an exclusive ...

Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the ...