Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Known for: Acting
Born: September 16, 1950
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.
Known for
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
Not Black Enough
2017
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Looking for Lincoln
2009
Leaving Cleaver
1999
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
America's Library
2018
13th
2016
Birth of a Movement
2017
A Place of Our Own
2004
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Color Adjustment
1992
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
The View
1997
The Colbert Report
2005
Faces of America
2010
Finding Your Roots
2012
Wonders of the African World
1999
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
Gospel
2024
Making Black America
2022
America: The Story of Us
2010
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Great Railway Journeys
1980
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Watchmen
2019
The Simpsons
1989
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003