

Explore our shared histories with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, historian, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Join Professor Gates in exploring the connections that bind us and our shared histories through iconic series like Making Black America, Finding Your Roots, and more.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, historian, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Join Professor Gates in exploring the connections that bind us and our shared histories through iconic series like Making Black America, Finding Your Roots, and more.
Henry Louis Gates uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley.
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Out of the Past
Journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones uncover the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
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Anchormen
Henry Louis Gates reveals the unexpected family trees of Angela Y. Davis and Jeh Johnson
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And Still I Rise
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Watch iconic series like Making Black America, Finding Your Roots, The Black Church, and more from Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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