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Gates gave this speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, in San Francisco, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. He was speaking in advance of the premiere of his 2004 PBS project, America Beyond the Color Line. The program was a kind of State of the Union report on black America at the dawn of the 21st century.
Feb 3, 2004 · Harvard humanities professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (PBS's "Wonders of the African World") surveys the state of black America in this four-part series.
Cast & crew. Photos. Trivia. Recently viewed. America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Mini Series 2002–2004) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Feb 8, 2005 · Viewed through the lens of four intrinsic elements of the African American experience Black Hollywood, The Black Elite, The Ghetto, and The New South gates examines the legacy of the Civil Rights movement since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century.
Henry is a professor at Harvard and teaches black history. Through interviews, the professor examines the past, present, and future of black/white race relations in the USA. Henry travels from The South to The North then to Hollywood California were he finds out how racist the movie industry is.
Feb 3, 2004 · Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century.
