Henry Louis Gates Jr. joins Hoda and Jenna to talk about “Finding Your Roots” Season 11 and reveals how it was discovered ...

Gates reports that one fugitive, Henry Box Brown, went so far as to stage ... it is the land that gave us birth,” wrote a Black tailor named Thomas L. Jennings in the country’s first Black ...

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for its eleventh season on PBS. Over the course of 10 new episodes, Gates and his team use genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the ancestry of 12 Americans Corporate funding is provided by The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson. Additional funding is provided by the W.K. Kellogg ...

Lincoln on Race and Slavery Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the most comprehensive collection of Lincoln's writings on race and ...

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 ...