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Politics Aug 21

WATCH LIVE: The 2025 Hutchins Forum

By News Desk

World Aug 20

Pope Leo XIV shares a festive lunch with the poor of the Diocese of Albano Laziale
An inside look at how PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. met Pope Leo

Gates met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican after the Harvard professor and "Finding Your Roots" host published insights into the pope's ancestry.

By Dan Cooney

Arts Feb 12

Black women were vital to the Black church. Here are 2 stories

While the “backbone of the church has been Black women almost from the very beginning,” historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, their roles have both been suppressed within the church and forgotten when recounting its history.

By Christina Turner

Nation Aug 16

WATCH LIVE: Race and Racism in the Age of Trump | 2017 Hutchins Forum

Join PBS NewsHour's Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Henry Louis Gates Jr. as they host and moderate the 2017 Hutchins Forum on "Race and Racism in the Age of Trump."…

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Nation Nov 22

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For black Americans, era since civil rights movement brought success and vulnerability

It’s the best of times and worst of times for black Americans, says Henry Louis Gates Jr. He joins Jeffrey Brown to preview the PBS mini-series “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise,” and discuss both great gains and…

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Aug 15

WATCH LIVE: Henry Louis Gates Jr., PBS NewsHour host ‘Race and the Race to the White House’ forum

By Kenya Downs

How has race shaped the presidency and the 2016 campaign? Join NewsHour for a special forum moderated by special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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Aug 20

WATCH LIVE: Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts ‘Black Millennials: They Rock, but Can They Rule?’

By News Desk

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research hosts a panel discussion titled Black Millennials: They Rock, but Can They Rule? Watch a live stream of the event at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday.

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Jul 23

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Professor’s Arrest Puts Racial Profiling in the Spotlight

The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home in Cambridge, Mass., made headlines again Thursday, after President Obama commented on the controversy during Wednesday's news conference. Ray Suarez talks to analysts about the larger issues at…

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Jul 23

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Conversation: The Bondwoman’s Narrative

Gwen Ifill talks with Henry Louis Gates, editor of "The Bondwoman's Narrative," a novel written by a former slave.

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