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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.
- July 16, 2009
- Disorderly conduct charge dropped
- Gates residence, Ware Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mar 11, 2024 · ‘We are all mixed’: Henry Louis Gates Jr on race, being arrested and working towards America’s redemption. Afua Hirsch. The US academic and TV historian’s rejection of racial categories has...
May 7, 2022 · Henry Louis Gates Jr. doesn’t seem too worried about “critical race theory” or “white fragility” or “woke warriors” or any of those ridiculous buzzwords that get tossed around when people...
Jul 26, 2010 · [1] What sort of African American angle emerged in the coverage of the Gates incident? Was there an attempt to discuss the black population more broadly, or did the media stay focused on the individuals directly involved? To a certain degree, this varied according to each media sector.
- Benjamin Wormald
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.
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- September 16, 1950 (age 73), Keyser, West Virginia, U.S.
- Essay, history, literature
Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. Brazil has the second largest black population — black being defined by people of African descent in the way that we would define them in this...
Jul 23, 2009 · The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home in Cambridge, Mass., made headlines again Thursday, after President Obama commented on the controversy during Wednesday's...
