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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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September 26, 2013

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Root 100 Nominee Nicholas Ryan Gant Breaks Down the Secret Meaning of His New Single

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Root 100 Nominee Nicholas Ryan Gant Breaks Down the Secret Meaning of His New Single

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute 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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