Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Born in Keyser, West Virginia, USA — Sep 16 1950
Biography
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Credits
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The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
Finding Your Roots
Self - Host
Watchmen
Skip Gates
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
America: The Story of Us
Self
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter
America Beyond the Color Line
Self - Host
13th
Self
The Gettysburg Address
Self
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
Gospel
Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
Self - Host
Color Adjustment
Self
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
Self - Host
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Self - Host
Africa's Great Civilizations
Self - Presenter
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
Wonders of the African World
Host
Making Black America
Birth of a Movement
Self
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Production
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Production
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Self
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Self - Presenter
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self - Host
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Production
Not Black Enough
Self
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
America's Library
Self
A Place of Our Own
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
Looking for Lincoln
Self - Host
Leaving Cleaver
Self
Let the Church Say, Amen
Production
Faces of America
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Himself