You can read this quote from Cathy Hughes in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 63: Which black man engaged a…

You can read this quote from the book Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1983), and others by Abdul-Jabbar, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more of The Root’s coverage of Abdul-Jabbar here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He…

You can read this lyric from the song “Trenchtown Rock” (1971) by Bob Marley, and additional quotes from Marley, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Listen to the song here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the…

You can read this quote from an op-ed by Bob Herbert in the New York Times, titled “From Dream to Nightmare” (2004), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at…

You can read the full quote from the book Damballah (1981), and others by John Edgar Wideman, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard…

You can read this quote by Ed Bradley in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more quotes by Bradley here.   Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

You can find this quote from the book Writin’ Is Fightin’ (1988), and other quotes by Ishmael Reed, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is…

Editor’s note: This week we are revisiting the “amazing fact” from Oct. 15, 2012, that kicked off this series and takes us back to the genesis of the African experience in America. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 1: How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave…