The “Finding Your Roots” host shares how he went from being a kid history buff to a revered academic to the gentleman who tells you (literally) about yourself.

Gates, 73, shares how he became a revered Harvard professor, a best-selling writer and the founder and host of the hit PBS show ‘Finding Your Roots’

Emmy nominee Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the historic origins of gospel music in America.

Harvard University recently announced the creation of the Black Film Project, which is designed to support filmmakers of any race who illuminate Black history and culture through nonfiction films.

The annual Hutchins Forum came back to the Old Whaling Church Thursday evening, bringing with it a tense discussion about affirmative action admissions practices at elite colleges and universities.

An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has announced the 2023-2024 class of fellows.

Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on this month’s topic: bravery.

Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American Studies, is a long and complex series of debates about the role of slavery and race in American classrooms.

"Let us hope that this milestone will inspire us to transcend 'all possible manner of differences,' as the great Du Bois once put it ... "

“It’s a boiling time in America, and not just because of climate change.”

So Henry Louis Gates, Jr., introduced the 2022 Hutchins Forum, a discussion of race and the American culture wars at the Old Whaling Church on August 18. An extension of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the forum brought together academics, journalists, and professors to discuss the cultural tensions present in public discourse and the media.

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words.

One of the key moments in the evolution of modern concepts of race occurred in France in 1741, when the members of Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held a continentwide essay contest on the “cause” of dark skin and textured hair among African populations. Why, they asked, were Black people Black?