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wtvipbsclt: Henry Louis Gates introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive. Tuesday, March 28th at 9 PM.
ValleyPBS: Tonight at 8:00pm, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.
blackenterprise: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is doing the Lord's work.
geneabargains: TONIGHT! Finding Your Roots on PBS! "Anchormen" Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
mygpb: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them on a new episode of "Finding Your Roots" airing tonight at 8 PM.
PBSElPaso: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
Watch today’s episode of Finding Your Roots: Anchormen at 7 PM on PBS!
Stream the series anytime with PBS Passport:
ttupublicmedia: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
Watch today’s episode of Finding Your Roots: Anchormen at 7 PM on PBS!
Stream the series anytime with PBS Passport:
RobertMontag14: Someday I hope to be just famous enough for Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. to poke holes in all my family's legends.
"No, your uncle Huey did not rescue a woman by ripping the O off the last name and using it as a life preserver on the way from Ireland."
Rickster30for30: From the book, "The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
blacklikewho: Henry Louis Gates DNA show got some people in a grip. But let us give him something: he is very clear that the project is a liberal multicultural/multiracial one in which all our differences make us the same. Do with that what you wish. I opt out.
pseudnonymus: Henry Louis Gates Jr.: “So, how do you feel knowing your ancestors may have cooked and eaten one of their slaves?”
Channing Tatum: “man I don’t know, hungry?”
pbsutah: Henry Louis Gates introduces trail- blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive. Tune in on Mar 28th at 7:00 p.m.!
mygpb: Join members of the "Finding Your Roots" production team, including Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to hear stories and highlights from the show in a virtual conversation on 4/12!
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TheReal_Chemist: Something that keeps me going is that Henry Louis Gates Jr. is editor of an Oxford Dictionary of AAE. I gotta make it to 2025 dawg
newnjpt2: Angela Davis, the violent black Marxist communist Panther accomplice and murderer, isn’t that black. Her ancestors were white slaveholders. Watching Henry Louis Gates on PBS.
davverista: “When God closes a door, I open a window.” –Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Ayofemi: Dancer Bill T. Jones and Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Preserving the Black Cultural Legacy - Harper's Bazaar
MarkPaoletta: 2/ Later,I asked him what he thought about Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. At this point, Jeffries's remarks turned vicious.
marcsimschicago: What is the most likely predictor of your economic outcome? Your parent’s economic status.
nothing is GOING to change
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Clip by Marc Sims.
Jobs4memphians: One Drop Rule... We were the first people globally!
We were already here!
mygpb: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families. "Finding Your Roots" airs tonight at 8 PM.
KUACFMTV: Finding Your Roots: Hidden Kin, Tonight at 7 on KUAC TV
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actors Julia Roberts and Edward Norton discover their hidden connections to history and each other.
TheatreWretched: “The thing about Black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” Henry Louis Gates, professor, historian, filmmaker, literary critic
nowayreparation: The Blacker the content the sweeter the truth. Can someone please ask Henry Louis gates about the motto of his magazine- The Root- in a class he’s teaching this semester at Harvard?
0xTRAPCHAT: Obsessed with Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
plus_400: What is the most likely predictor of your economic outcome? Your parent’s economic status. I
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PBS: Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells Mike Nichols and Meryl Streep that they're related.
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JosephJ98780208: Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.,Henry Louis Gates,Community, Action, Black ,
irishman3370: Listen, I agree. BUT. Y’all gotta stop thinking that when Black actors win top-tier accolades it should beget better work. Have we not been listening to Halle Berry? She made it painstakingly clear. Henry Louis Gates made it clear. It’s a fool’s errand *for us* think otherwise.
krysilove: Ron Carter and Mos Def need to go see the man (Henry Louis Gates)
shonatiger: According to Henry Louis Gates: None of the 3 major commercial DNA companies have tested an African-American who was 100% African. The average AA is a quarter white.
Not unexpected, but horrifying on SO many levels.
lisekimhorton: Watching PBS Dr. Henry Louis Gates' "Finding Your Roots" (Jane Lynch) I learned America sent military to Russia in 1918 to try and affect the outcome of the Russian Revolution. I didn't know that!
robkreider_: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
NewYorker: The scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discusses the roots of racism, the importance of affirmative action, and where the country’s race relations can go from here.
conor64: Notice that it's a free speech and expression organization that is successfully protecting the rights of faculty..Henry Louis Gates was right; Delgado, Matsuda et al were wrong.
SistasicilyN: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "We Are 99.9% the Same" | Amanpour and Company
marcsimschicago: Chicago neighborhood crime.
Unless there are government intervention, philanthropic intervention, behavioral intervention, nothing is going to change.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Clip by Marc Sims
HenryLouisGates: 'The Black Church' And My Own Bargain With Jesus
Stockman_: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
fdscanada: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
ObiWanDohony: Dear Henry Louis Gates Jr, would you ever host a dating show where a panel of three couples looks to find their most recent common ancestor
APTV: Explore the Irish American experience through the families of actress Jane Lynch and comic Jim Gaffigan in "Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.- No Irish Need Apply." Tonight (3/14) at 7 PM.
Jsweinstein50: So disappointed in Dr. Henry Louis Gates in showcasing Angela Davis, a BDS supporter and anti-Semite, on his otherwise fine program Finding Your Roots.
blu_iii: Finding PBS programming more entertaining then anything else on local or cable tv. “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis. Gates Jr”.
rmpbs: Tonight at 7 on Rocky Mountain PBS, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families.
KUACFMTV: Finding Your Roots: No Irish Need Apply, Tonight at 7 on KUAC TV
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families.
LoveTaylorDayne: Nas’ great great great grandmother is Pocahontas???? Let me email Henry Louis Gates and see if I can get a discount so he can find my roots next.
TheatreWretched: “The thing about Black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” Henry Louis Gates, professor, historian, filmmaker, literary critic
SER1897: When I was a kid, Ford seemed like a young version of my grandfather. The resemblance is even stronger now that he’s closer to my grandfather’s age at the time. Maybe Henry Louis Gates will find a connection.
PantherView: Harvard University-based historian and Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be the editor-in-chief of Oxford’s new dictionary entitled the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
NewDaveWhoDis1: One of my favorite shows out is, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates. I wish everyone could trace their ancestral roots.
TAJrani: And this is why I am into the idea of Henry Louis Gates Jr. working on an AAVE Dictionary.
I understand why some of us may not want that to be a thing, BUT — we need our shit on record because this is dumb + inaccurate
Balgowallah: When it comes to discussion of race and racism in the US I can think of public intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Teju Cole, Michelle Alexander, Kimberle Crenshaw, Henry Louis Gates, earlier Baldwin, Ellison
In Oz, all roads lead only to Stan Grant WTF?
lwilliams333: Dynamic discussion about the history and preservation of the Black cultural tradition in America…
_Shiv_16: Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
- Henry Louis Gates
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PatrickByrne: The history of slavery was also reprehensible.
10.5 million Africans were enslaved in the ATLANTIC slave trade.
6 million were taken to Brazil.
320,000-340,000 came to the colonies that became the USA.
cf. WEB Du Bois, later endorsed by Henry Louis Gates of Harvard.
AfricaInApril: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
HenryLouisGates: "Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Bill T. Jones first met in 1994, when Gates, then early in his career as a professor at Harvard, was writing a profile on the dancer and choreographer, who was at the height of his career." Read here:
CarolineLosneck: This is good! Bill T. Jones and Henry Louis Gates Jr. On Building Artistic Legacies
The dancer and choreographer speaks with the historian and professor about contributing to—and preserving—the Black cultural tradition in America.
AmberMightDoIt: 5 of 5 stars to The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
maxbsawicky: I feel obligated now to read a novel called Divine Days by Leon Forrest, but it's nearly 1,200 effin pages. Described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. as “The War and Peace of African American literature.”
AwkwardGirlLA: I have never seen The Simpsons acknowledge Black characters the way they did in this Carl theme episode with Anderson Paak music, Henry Louis Gates Jr and Black cowboy heritage. This is such a great episode. How Black writers were involved in it.
HenryLouisGates: "Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on this month’s topic: bravery." Read here:
PolleyWealth: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
ChoctawFreedmen: Don Cheadle descends from Chickasaw Freedmen Mary and Bill Kemp and discovered more about his ancestors and their history of enslavement and delayed emancipation in the Chickasaw Nation on a segment with Henry Louis Gates on the PBS Series African American Lives.
pbsutah: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families.
Join in on Mar 14th at 7:00 p.m.!
apathystinks: I am obsessed with Botox. Watching Finding Your Roots and fixating on Henry Louis Gates, Jr & Tony Gonzales and contemplating their similar facial dexterity (or lack thereof).
Agenparl: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to Debut Exhibition Co-curated by Henry ... -
galina_johnston: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
brianshumak: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
DPagiazitis: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
WarrenAntonio13: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
AndyGCowan: I doubt Henry Louis Gates Jr. would have to look very far to discover the origins of Don Jr.'s perpetual chip on his shoulder.
EntryUpon: Every time a non-white person on this Henry Louis Gates ancestry show has a white ancestor that much information isn’t known about, they just assume the worst about that white person and have the famous person denounce their white ancestry.
This is why I pirate PBS content
friendsofquinn: Quinn has always been interested in genealogy and recently had a chance to sit down with Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr, the host of 'Finding Your Roots'. Watch our conversation!
HParkerEvans: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
kansascitypbs: Courtney B. Vance hosts as we celebrate the renowned, respected, and popular historian, author, and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. Features appearances by distinguished guests seen in Gates' work. Watch Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Uncovering America tonight at 8/7c.
OhioPEP: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Whose Black History Will Be Taught?
willshetterly: "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice." —Henry Louis Gates
Bigger_Piggy: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
mwalukere: I think Professor Louis Henry Gates talks about this in his documentary African Civilization.
Synergy_Life: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
pana: Yes, who's history?????
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Whose Black History Will Be Taught?
NetzerGreg: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Whose Black History Will Be Taught? | Diane Ravitch's blog
drjohnthompson: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Whose Black History Will Be Taught?
GavinSchwier: 5 of 5 stars to Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
tultican: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Whose Black History Will Be Taught? - It is against DeFascist's misguided display of power that those of us who cherish the ideals of freedom of inquiry must take a stand.
mygpb: Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sheds new light on what it means to be African American, tracing African-American history from the origins of slavery through four centuries of events. A marathon of "The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" airs today beginning at 10 AM.
wqptpbs: What was America like after the Civil War and the end of slavery? Join us for an epic journey with host Henry Louis Gates Jr., featuring interviews with historians, authors and other experts.
Tune in for back-to-back episodes starting today (March 4) at 10:00AM.
TimHazlettCFP: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
PegasusFinPlan: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
haqq_khadijah: Reading “The Signifying Monkey” by Henry Louis Gates.
4Livingtheory: The Documentary was based on the book Henry Louis Gates Jr put together “Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow” Here is a piece about ‘Stony the Road’ - link to the documentary in comments
theRuthBenjamin: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
EricBottolfsen: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
DelphiAdvisers: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
DCisChillin: Henry Louis Gates had some of your favs shook when he told em that one lol
mygpb: Discover how Black people collectively prosper, defy white supremacy, and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself. Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Making Black America: Through the Grapevine" airs today at 11 AM.
TrishaTetzlaff: Five luminaries, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Aly Raisman offer their takes on the topic of bravery.
