He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. This moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the. In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The companion book to the upcoming PBS series. in English Literature from Clare College at Cambridge in 1979, where he is also an Honorary Fellow.Ī former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, 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, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress. in History, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. A native of Piedmont, West Virginia, Gates earned his B.A. 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. from his alma mater, the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of a number of honorary degrees, most recently a Litt.D. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.He has also produced and hosted more than 20 documentary films, most recently Making Black America on PBS.įinding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is heading into its ninth season.
in English Literature from Clare College at Cambridge in 1979, where he is also an Honorary Fellow.Ī former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, 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, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and The Studio Museum of Harlem.
He has also produced and hosted more than 20 documentary films, most recently Making Black America on PBS.įinding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is heading into its ninth season.
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