Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr. on What America Owes Black People

Read the entire “I Have a Dream” speech here. Suggested Reading Black Women Are More Affected by Postpartum Depression, But Less Likely to Receive the Care They Need The Truth About Why This Former Congolese President Was Sentenced to Death Everything You Need To Know About Fredi Washington, The Black Hollywood Star Who Refused To Pass…

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Published

September 1, 2013

Read the entire “I Have a Dream” speech here.

Black Women Are More Affected by Postpartum Depression, But Less Likely to Receive the Care They Need

The Truth About Why This Former Congolese President Was Sentenced to Death

Everything You Need To Know About Fredi Washington, The Black Hollywood Star Who Refused To Pass As White

Video will return here when scrolled back into view

Tramell Tillman Talks Sparring with Tom Cruise and Bringing That Severance Heat to Mission: Impossible

view video

Tramell Tillman Talks Sparring with Tom Cruise and Bringing That Severance Heat to Mission: Impossible

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.

Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

Straight From