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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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November 4, 2013

Read President Barack Obama’s speech in its entirety here.

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Karamo Brown’s ‘Queer Eye’ Absence Gave a Master Class on How to Respond to White Microaggressions

53 Years After Roe v. Wade, Black Women in the South Still Suffer the Most Without It

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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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