Henry Louis Gates

It’s important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when…

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies…

You can say I had a severe case of ‘Roots’ envy. I wanted to be…

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the…

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique…

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live…

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the…

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in…

The African American’s relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early…

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify…