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Off. Carlos Figueroa. On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home by local police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who was responding to a 911 caller's report of men breaking and entering the residence. The arrest initiated a series of events that unfolded under the ...
Mar 11, 2024 · T he first time I met Henry Louis Gates Jr raised more questions than it answered. It was the year 2000, I was still a teenager, and he – already a distinguished Harvard professor – was ...
Jul 26, 2010 · The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. By , and Amy Mitchell. The largest single event explicitly tied to race in the way it was covered during the year was the arrest on July 16, 2009 of Gates, who was mistakenly suspected of trying to break in to his own home. Gates accused the arresting officer, who is white, of racism – and this sparked a ...
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Jul 20, 2009 · July 20, 2009 -- Prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after an incident with police responding to a call about someone ...
The arrest of the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer is playing out along racial lines. But it's also about power and machismo -- on both sides.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most influential scholars of Black history and literature in the United States. He’s the director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, author of more than 20 books and creator of more than 20 documentaries, host of the groundbreaking genealogy series Finding your Roots, and, as it turns out, my former professor.
Feb 3, 2020 · Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of a handful of academics who have crossed over into something approaching true celebrity. ... “That [expletive] is a racist.” The White House ‘‘beer summit ...
