Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Department: Acting
Biography
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Known For
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
America's Library
2018
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
13th
2016
Birth of a Movement
2017
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
A Place of Our Own
2004
Color Adjustment
1992
Not Black Enough
2017
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Looking for Lincoln
2009
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Leaving Cleaver
1999
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
The View
1997
The Colbert Report
2005
Faces of America
2010
Finding Your Roots
2012
Wonders of the African World
1999
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
Gospel
2024
Making Black America
2022
America: The Story of Us
2010
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Great Railway Journeys
1980
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Watchmen
2019
The Simpsons
1989
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014