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Henry Louis Gates est un Acteur Américain né le 16 septembre 1950 à Keyser (Etats-Unis)

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Nom de naissance Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 16 septembre 1950 (73 ans) à Keyser (Etats-Unis)
Récompenses Prix MacArthur, Prix George Polk

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic,racist educator, scholar, writer, and editor. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."

Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries, including the history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the biographical African American Lives and Faces of America. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.