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July 20, 2009
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. after a white female passerby thought he was breaking into his own house and called police.
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by Associated Press onJuly 20, 2009
Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor in chief of The Root and one of the nation's pre-eminent black scholars, was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass last week after a woman thought he was breaking into his own house and called police.
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June 24, 2009
VIDEO: Spike Lee, in a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's Editor-in-Chief, calls out the critics who predicted violence at the release of his groundbreaking 1989 film and clarifies what the "right thing" really was.
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June 24, 2009
Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJune 24, 2009
The Root's Editor in Chief sits down with some of the brightest and most influential figures in science, literature and popular culture.
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January 12, 2009
