Quote of the Day: Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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January 1, 2014

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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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