Henry Louis Gates Jr

theGRIO REPORT – Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his collaborator Dr. Donald Yacovone have exciting findings for African-American history buffs in his new book and six-part PBS documentary entitled ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross’…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – After a tragedy like the Trayvon Martin killing, calls routinely arise for a conversation about race…

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama first addressed the death of Trayvon Martin last year, he did so passionately, declaring that if he had a son, he would look like the slain 17-year-old…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nas has rapped his way to Harvard University…

OPINION – When TJ Holmes says that ‘Driving while black ain’t no joke,’ believe him…

CLUTCH – In a recent episodes of PBS’ Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, actress Michelle Rodriguez learned of the extreme lengths the Puerto Rican side of her family went through to remain light skinned.

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis ‘Skip’ Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County, Maryland, who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery — who is Gates’ great-great grandfather?…

OPINION – It should serve as an opportunity for us to examine the ways in which we as a black community can and must view our struggles as more connected across lines of class…

Dr. West has become increasingly vocal in his critique of Obama, and even went as far as to say that Obama treated him “like a cub scout”…

OPINION – The conversation on race should begin in the streets of America, where working class people of color sometimes find themselves trapped in a police state…

VIDEO – One year later, long after the so-called beer summit at the White House, where are we now?…

VIDEO – Ogletree is the author of ‘The Presumption of Guilt’ which examines the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., as well as race, class and crime in America…

BOSTON (AP) – ‘Misunderstandings’ and a ‘certain degree of fear’ each man had for the other led to the dispute, says a new independent review…

OPINION – So much for that teachable moment on race the Henry Louis Gates incident promised to become, at least in the hearts and minds of so many people of goodwill…

The report by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, which was published Thursday in the Boston Globe…

OPINION – Unfortunately for him, Steve King is part of a dying breed that struggles to regain the racial imbalances of yesteryear…

OPINION – Gates seems to have spent his entire life proving to the world that he is a “big shot,” because simply being a black man may never have been quite good enough…