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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and D…
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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Movie Self
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2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
TV show Self - Host
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2025
The Gettysburg Address
Movie Self
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2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
TV show Self - Host
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2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Movie Himself
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2024
Gospel
TV show Self
- 2024
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2022
Making Black America
TV show
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2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Movie Self
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2021
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
TV show Self - Host
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2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Movie Self
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2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
TV show Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
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2019
Watchmen
TV show Skip Gates
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2019
Who Killed Malcolm X?
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
TV show Self - Host
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2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Movie Self
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2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TV show Self
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2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Movie Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
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2018
America's Library
Movie Self
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2017
Not Black Enough
Movie Self
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2017
Africa's Great Civilizations
TV show Self - Presenter
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2017
Birth of a Movement
Movie Self
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2016
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
TV show Self - Presenter
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2016
13th
Movie Self
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Movie Self
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
- 2013
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2012
Finding Your Roots
TV show Self - Host
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2010
America: The Story of Us
TV show Self
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2010
Faces of America
TV show
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2009
Looking for Lincoln
Movie Self - Host
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2005
The Colbert Report
TV show
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2004
A Place of Our Own
Movie Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
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2004
America Beyond the Color Line
TV show Self - Host
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2003
Let the Church Say, Amen
Movie Executive Producer
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2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Movie Self
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Guest
