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DESCRIPTION:MoAD presents Conversations Across the Diaspora, an interactive lecture 
 series bringing you eclectic conversations from Tamale to London and New 
 York and everywhere in between.\n\nThis month we feature author and host 
 Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with historian, filmmaker and public 
 intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\n\nFriday, April 9, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 
 1:00 pm\n\nMore info & register: 
 https://www.moadsf.org/blog/conversations-across-the-diaspora-with-guest-henry-louis-gates-jr/\n\n\nABOUT: 
 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\n\nHenry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher 
 University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & 
 African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning 
 filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution 
 builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-four books and 
 created twenty-one documentary films, including Wonders of the African 
 World, African American Lives, Faces of America, Black in Latin America, 
 Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise, and Africa’s Great 
 Civilizations. Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now 
 in its sixth season on PBS, has been called “one of the deepest and 
 wisest series ever on television,” leveraging “the inherent 
 entertainment capacity of the medium to educate millions of Americans about 
 the histories and cultures of our nation and the world.”\n\nProfessor 
 Gates’s six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many 
 Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, 
 earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program—Long Form, as 
 well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and 
 NAACP Image Award. His latest projects are the history series, 
 Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (PBS, 2019), winner of the 
 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the related books, Dark Sky 
 Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, with Tonya Bolden 
 (Scholastic, 2019), and Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, 
 and the Rise of Jim Crow (Penguin Random House, 2019), a New York Times 
 Notable Book of 2019.\n\nHaving written for such leading publications as 
 The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates serves as 
 chairman of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine he co-founded in 2008, and 
 chair of the Creative Board of FUSION TV. He oversees the Oxford African 
 American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource 
 in the field, and has received grant funding to develop a Finding Your 
 Roots curriculum to teach students science through genetics and genealogy. 
 In 2012, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, a collection of his writings 
 edited by Abby Wolf, was published.\n\nThe recipient of fifty-six honorary 
 degrees and numerous prizes, Professor Gates was a member of the first 
 class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and 
 in 1998, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the 
 National Humanities Medal. He was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential 
 Americans list in 1997, to Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and to 
 Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012. He earned his B.A. in History, 
 summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in 
 English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge in 
 1979. In 2018, he was one of 15 alumni of African descent honored in the 
 exhibition, Black Cantabs: History Makers, at the Cambridge University 
 Library. He also is an Honorary Fellow, Clare College, at the University of 
 Cambridge.\n\nProfessor Gates has directed the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute 
 for African and African American Research—now the Hutchins Center—since 
 arriving at Harvard in 1991, and during his first fifteen years on campus, 
 he chaired the Department of Afro-American Studies as it expanded into the 
 Department of African and African American Studies with a full-fledged 
 doctoral program. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and 
 Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public 
 Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, Jazz at Lincoln 
 Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and the 
 Brookings Institution. In 2017, the Organization of American States named 
 Gates a Goodwill Ambassador for the Rights of People of African Descent in 
 the Americas. In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National 
 Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/11/18840708.php
SUMMARY:Conversations Across the Diaspora w/ guest Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (MoAD)
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/11/18840708.php
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