Henry Louis Gates Jr

Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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’…
/ October 11, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – After a tragedy like the Trayvon Martin killing, calls routinely arise for a conversation about race…
/ August 8, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ July 16, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nas has rapped his way to Harvard University…
/ July 16, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – When TJ Holmes says that ‘Driving while black ain’t no joke,’ believe him…
/ August 1, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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.
/ June 4, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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?…
/ January 18, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ November 29, 2010
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”…
/ August 5, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ July 16, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
VIDEO – One year later, long after the so-called beer summit at the White House, where are we now?…
/ July 16, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ July 2, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
BOSTON (AP) – ‘Misunderstandings’ and a ‘certain degree of fear’ each man had for the other led to the dispute, says a new independent review…
/ June 30, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ June 22, 2010
The report by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, which was published Thursday in the Boston Globe…
/ June 17, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Unfortunately for him, Steve King is part of a dying breed that struggles to regain the racial imbalances of yesteryear…
/ June 16, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
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…
/ April 23, 2010