A People on the Move, a new four-part series hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries. We spoke with the series ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals inspiring ancestors of novelist Amy Tan & poet Rita Dove.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known as the Great Migration.
The first episode of the four-part series, called “Exodus,” details the first wave of migration north from southern states that helped turn the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago into a Black ...
La Famiglia - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits tiny towns in Calabria, Italy to trace the roots of talk show host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli, revealing the challenges that their ancestors ...
Novelist Amy Tan has always turned to her own family for writing inspiration. "The Joy Luck Club," one of her most famous ...
A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE, a new history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The 4-part series examines the powerful influence of ...
As a part of “an effort to diversify their library collections,” the Harvard Library acquired a 1949 international Green Book in March 2024.
Author and journalist Charles M. Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston Hughes fellowship at ...
In a recent The View: Behind the Table podcast, Joy shared that her comedy career started early as a child and expanded on a story she shared on Finding Your Roots. Joy appeared on PBS’s Finding Your ...