CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "Selma‚" director Ava DuVernay and rapper LL Cool J are among the recipients of Harvard University's 2017 W.E.B. Du Bois medals honoring those who have made significant contributions to African and African-American history and culture.
A new curriculum based on Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s popular PBS documentary series, Finding Your Roots, received two grants this week: one for $355,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to create Genetics and Genealogy Summer Camps for Middle School-Aged Youth; and one for $304,000 from the National Science Foundation to establish a college program, according to a news release.
When documentarian Ken Burns and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. kicked off a national speaking tour on race in Charleston, S.C., in December, Donald Trump's run for the Republican presidential nomination was a disturbing phenomenon, but one that seemed likely to collapse once voters actually started going to the polls. Three months later, Trump is the Republican front-runner.
Co-Directors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelynn M. Hammonds
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds convened the New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Working Group for the first time in January 2006. In 2009, the group’s name was changed to the Genetics and Genealogy Working Group, to encompass more fully the broad reach of the group, composed of the nation’s top scientists, social scientists, and historians working in this field. The group’s chief aim is to advance research in genetics and genealogy and to use historical...
