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Quote of the Day: Dambisa Moyo on Aid to Africa
You can read this quote from the book Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2009), by Dambisa Moyo, 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…
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Quote of the Day: Jay Z on the School of Hard Knocks
You can read this quote from the song “Hard Knock Life” (1998), and more quotes by Jay Z, 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…
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Steve McQueen and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talk 12 Years a Slave, Part 3
Editor’s note: You can read part 1 of this conversation here and part 2 here. When the creators of a drama that would bring Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave to the big screen needed a historical consultant, Henry Louis Gates Jr., who edited a recent edition of the memoir, was a natural choice. Gates,…
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Quote of the Day: Dr. Seuss on Christmas
Read more quotes about Christmas 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.
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Steve McQueen and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talk 12 Years a Slave, Part 2
Editor’s note: You can read part 1 of this conversation here. When the creators of a drama that would bring Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave to the big screen needed a historical consultant, Henry Louis Gates Jr., who edited a recent edition of the memoir, was a natural choice. Gates, a Harvard history scholar,…
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Quote of the Day: Malcolm X on Revolution
You can read this quote from the speech “The Black Revolution” (1964), and more quotes by Malcolm X, 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…
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Steve McQueen and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talk 12 Years a Slave
When the creators of a drama that would bring Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave to the big screen needed a historical consultant, Henry Louis Gates Jr., who edited a recent edition of the memoir, was a natural choice. Gates, a Harvard history scholar, producer of PBS’s African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross and editor-in-chief…
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Quote of the Day: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz
You can find this quote, and other quotes from Cornel West, 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 also the editor-in-chief ofThe Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Did a Black Man Discover the Fountain of Youth?
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. 61:…
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Quote of the Day: Bill T. Jones on Theater
You can find this quote in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Watch videos from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. 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.
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