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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.
Jul 26, 2010 · 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 sometimes heated national conversation about race.
- Benjamin Wormald
Jul 22, 2009 · Henry Louis Gates Jr has devoted thousands of words over many years to the subject of racial injustice, as one of America's foremost authorities of its black history. But he didn't expect to...
Jul 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 apparently trying to break into his Cambridge, Mass., home.
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...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Feb 3, 2020 · I definitely think black people — I could walk out there and tell you, “That [expletive] is a racist.”. The White House ‘‘beer summit,’’ held in the Rose Garden in 2009: from left ...
