Quote of the Day: Louis Armstrong on Authenticity

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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November 10, 2013

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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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Quote of the Day: Louis Armstrong on Authenticity

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