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News & Events

  • Gates documentary series receives $12M in funding

    Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates, Jr. Staff file photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office
    Staff file photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office

    Three new documentary series to be hosted and co-produced by Henry Louis "Skip" Gates for The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

    For more information please visit The Harvard University Gazette Online.

  • W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum Race [Still] Matters Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Moderated by Veteran Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

    Event Photos Coming Soon

  • NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE - JULY 30, 2008 TO AUGUST 2, 2008

    Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Gala
    Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.

    Legend Award
    This award is presented to individuals whose personal and professional accomplishments have earned them noteworthy distinction in their respective fields.

    Awardees:

    Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
    Educator, Scholar, Cultural Critic and Award Winning Author, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

    Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D.
    Award Winning Author Victor S. Thomas Professor of History & African and African American Studies Harvard University

    Nancy Wilson
    Legendary Song Stylist, Grammy Award Winner and Blues, Jazz and R&B Vocalist

    Governor Deval Patrick
    Massachusetts’ first African-American Chief Executive Officer

    For more information and videos of the event and award presentation, please visit the National Urban League's 2008 Conference site.
    A PDF of the event highlights is also available.

  • The Moynihan Report Revisited: A conference co-sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Harvard University Sociology Department and W.E. B. Du Bois Institute on African and African American Research.


    “Moynihan Report Revisited” Conference podcast pages now available (February 2008):
    http://conference.aapss.org/podcasts.cfm/
    moynihan_conference_podcasts/his_report_and_his_times

  • African American National Biography
    Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
    (Oxford | February 4, 2008 | $995.00 |ISBN: 978-0-19-516019-2)

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