Henry Louis Gates Jr News

Henry Louis Gates Jr. still hunting for great-great grandfather

By theGrio

2:04 PM on 01/18/2012

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County, Maryland, who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery -- who is Gates' great-great grandfather?...
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How black Ivy League alums got labeled 'gang-bangers'

By Lori Adelman

10:43 AM on 11/29/2010

OPINION - It should serve as an opportunity for us to examine the ways in which we as a black community can and must view our struggles as more connected across lines of class...
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Cornel West upset with President Obama

By theGrio

3:08 PM on 08/05/2010

Dr. West has become increasingly vocal in his critique of Obama, and even went as far as to say that Obama treated him "like a cub scout"...
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Gates 'teachable moment' one year later: What have we learned?

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

12:21 PM on 07/16/2010

OPINION - The conversation on race should begin in the streets of America, where working class people of color sometimes find themselves trapped in a police state...
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Barbershop Buzz: Anniversary of Gates arrest

By Terrence Romney

8:04 AM on 07/16/2010

VIDEO - One year later, long after the so-called beer summit at the White House, where are we now?...
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Ogletree: Gates arrest put racial profiling in spotlight

By Trenae McDuffie

5:32 PM on 07/02/2010

VIDEO - Ogletree is the author of 'The Presumption of Guilt' which examines the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., as well as race, class and crime in America...
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Report: Henry Louis Gates Jr's arrest avoidable

By theGrio

8:00 AM on 06/30/2010

BOSTON (AP) - 'Misunderstandings' and a 'certain degree of fear' each man had for the other led to the dispute, says a new independent review...
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Why white support for Obama is stuck behind Gates

By David A. Love

9:07 AM on 06/22/2010

OPINION - So much for that teachable moment on race the Henry Louis Gates incident promised to become, at least in the hearts and minds of so many people of goodwill...
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Study on Henry Gates arrest: Cambridge police don't use racial profiling

By theGrio

3:21 PM on 06/17/2010

The report by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, which was published Thursday in the Boston Globe...
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GOP rep who says 'Obama favors blacks' is stuck in the past

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

9:02 AM on 06/16/2010

OPINION - Unfortunately for him, Steve King is part of a dying breed that struggles to regain the racial imbalances of yesteryear...
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Henry Louis Gates lets US off the hook in 'slavery blame game'

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

2:55 PM on 04/23/2010

OPINION - Gates seems to have spent his entire life proving to the world that he is a "big shot," because simply being a black man may never have been quite good enough...
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. donates handcuffs to Smithsonian

By theGrio

6:31 PM on 02/14/2010

NEW YORK (AP) - Gates' arrest last July by police investigating a report of a possible break-in at his home near Harvard University sparked a national debate over racial profiling...
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Republicans' fear of a black president reaches new heights

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

9:03 AM on 02/03/2010

OPINION - The deceitful lies and illogical rants that drive the GOP right now are simply mind-boggling...
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TheGrio talks to Chris Matthews about Obama's America

By theGrio

8:17 AM on 01/18/2010

VIDEO - Chris Matthews of 'Hardball' sits down with theGrio's David Wilson and shares his take on President Obama's first year in office...
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It's official: America is 'post-racial' in the age of Obama

By John McWhorter

10:20 AM on 01/14/2010

OPINION - President Obama's first year has shown us again and again that race does not matter in America the way it used to...
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The most racially charged stories of 2009

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

10:02 AM on 12/30/2009

OPINION - As we bring in the New Year and look forward to a new decade, I thought it might be fun to review the most racially-charged incidents of 2009.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. Crowley spotted together

By theGrio

4:50 PM on 10/29/2009

Boston TV station WBZ is reporting on its website that Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley were seen together at a bar in Cambridge, MA...
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Sgt. Crowley speaks before police convention

By theGrio

2:34 PM on 08/17/2009

VIDEO -- More than 3,000 police officers gave Crowley a standing ovation Monday when he opened the group's five-day convention in Long Beach, Calif., with brief remarks...
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Teaching kids about race after a "teachable moment"

By theGrio

9:12 AM on 08/05/2009

Sgt. James Crowley and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. agreed to disagree Thursday night when they met for a beer with President Obama at the White House. But the cold draft that the men shared did not quite quench the hot controversy over race relations that has swept the nation.
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Gates jokes about arrest (video)

By theGrio

8:53 AM on 08/03/2009

VIDEO - Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sunday joked about his arrest by a white police officer, but also described receiving death threats and dreaming about being arrested at the White House. In his first public appearance since having a beer...
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