In part two of Harvard Professor and PBS Host Henry Louis Gates's interview with WSJ's Lee Hawkins, Gates discusses the ideological diversity and intra-racial discord within the African-American ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...

While the Harvard professor was hugely surprised by the docuseries' nomination, he tells PEOPLE he understands why it's now being recognized When Henry Louis Gates, Jr. woke up this morning ...

Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, historian, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. joins Hoda and Jenna to talk about “Finding Your Roots” Season 11 and reveals how it was discovered that some ancestors of Kristen Bell, and her husband Dax Shepard ...

In 2025, the Vilcek Foundation awards the $100,000 prize to Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. with the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship. Dr. Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University ...