One of the many speakers that you dont want to miss at this years Roots Tech!
March 3—Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Henry 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-two books and created eighteen 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, Africa’s Great Civilizations, and Finding Your Roots, his
groundbreaking genealogy series now in its fourth season on PBS. His
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.
