Henry Louis Gates Jr

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July 23, 2009
The White House tried Thursday to calm a hubbub over President Barack Obama's comments about a white police officer's arrest…
July 23, 2009
Obama responds to questions during a news conference Wednesday, July 22, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) I found myself enjoying President Obama’s
July 23, 2009
NATICK, Mass. (AP) -- A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home…
July 22, 2009
President Barack Obama says police acted "stupidly" in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Obama says…
July 22, 2009
As a byproduct of electing our first black president, the question of whether black Americans have “arrived” is increasingly debatable.
July 22, 2009
Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick comment on the arrest of the Harvard scholar...
July 22, 2009
Check out the The Daily Beast’s piece from daughter Elizabeth Gates on her father’s arrest: The arrest of my father,
July 22, 2009
NBC Nightly News details the arrest of renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Cambridge Police refer to the incident…
July 21, 2009
When I hear about a Black man being mistreated by police, I take a moment of pause. I think about…
July 21, 2009
A bicyclist passes by the home of Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Mainstream media
July 21, 2009
BOSTON (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the case against Henry Louis Gates Jr. says the police who arrested…
July 21, 2009
The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the country's most important black academic, in his own home means…
July 21, 2009
The arrest of one of America's most prominent black scholars is raising questions of racial profiling. It started with a…
July 20, 2009
BOSTON (AP) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he…