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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onOctober 22, 2012
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: We know his name, and that he arrived well before the Mayflower.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onOctober 15, 2012
Henry Louis Gates Jr. describes the man who inspired his new weekly black history series on The Root.
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by Harriette Cole onOctober 22, 2010
The author has been fascinated with Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings since she was 12. Receiving a MacArthur Fellowship is just the latest evidence that her quest to tell their story has paid off.
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