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harged was profane had important roots in african american vernacular english games and literary traditions and should be protected when asked by national endowment for the humanities chairman bruce cole to describe his work gates responded i would say i m a literary critic that s the first descriptor that comes to mind after that i would say i was a teacher both would be just as important 14 after his 2003 neh lecture gates published in the same year a book entitled the trials of phillis wheatley about the early african american poet in july 2022 gates announced that he would serve as editor in chief of the oxford dictionary of african american english a new glossary of language that will contain popular phrases used by historical black figures and modern day black americans 20 other activities edit gates speaks on a panel about race in america on the understanding our world stage at the national book festival on august 31 2019 gates accepts the peabody award for the african americans many rivers to cross in 1995 gates presented a program in the bbc series great railway journeys produced in association with pbs the program documents a 3 000 mile journey gates took through zimbabwe zambia and tanzania with his then wife sharon adams and daughters liza and meggie gates this trip came 25 years after gates worked at a hospital in kilimatinde near dodoma tanzania when he was a 19 year old pre medical student at yale university 21 in september 1995 gates narrated a five part abridgement by margaret busby of his memoir colored people on bbc radio 4 22 gates was the host and co producer of african american lives 2006 and african american lives 2 2008 in which the lineage of more than a dozen notable african americans was traced using genealogical and historical resources as well as genealogical dna testing in the first series gates learned that he has 50 european ancestry 23 and 50 african ancestry 24 he had known of some european ancestry but was surprised to learn the high proportion he also learned that he was descended from john redman a mulatto veteran in new england of the american revolutionary war gates has joined the sons of the american revolution in the series he discussed findings with guests about their complex ancestries in the second season of the program gates learned that he is part of a genetic subgroup that may be descended from or related to the fourth century irish king niall of the nine hostages he also learned that one of his african ancestors includes a yoruba man who was trafficked to america from ouidah in present day republic of benin the two series demonstrated the many strands of ancestry cultural heritage and history among african americans gates hosted faces of america a four part series presented by pbs in 2010 this program examined the genealogy of 12 north americans of diverse ancestry elizabeth alexander mario batali stephen colbert louise erdrich malcolm gladwell eva longoria yo yo ma mike nichols queen noor of jordan mehmet oz meryl streep and kristi yamaguchi since 1995 gates has been the jury chair for the anisfield wolf book award which honors written works that contribute to society s understanding of racism and the diversity of human culture gates was an anisfield wolf prize winner in 1989 for the schomburg library of women writers since 2012 he has hosted a pbs television series entitled finding your roots with henry louis gates jr 25 the second season of the series featuring 30 prominent guests across 10 episodes with gates as the narrator interviewer and genealogical investigator aired on pbs in fall 2014 the show s third season was postponed after it was discovered that actor ben affleck had persuaded gates to omit information about his slave owning ancestors 26 27 28 finding your roots resumed in january 2016 29 gates s critically acclaimed six part pbs documentary series the african americans many rivers to cross traced 500 years of african american history to the second inauguration of president barack obama gates wrote executive produced and hosted the series which earned the 2013 peabody award and an naacp image award in 2022 and 2023 gates was involved with the creation of ap african american studies the new college level course created by the college board for high school students 30 31 in 2026 gates would interview media mogul barry diller on finding your roots 32 ending the slavery blame game op ed edit in 2010 gates wrote an op ed in the new york times that discussed the role played by africans in the atlantic slave trade 33 his op ed begins and ends with the observation that it is very difficult to decide whether or not to give reparations to the descendants of american slaves whether they should receive compensation for the unpaid labor of their ancestors and their lack of rights gates also notes that it is equally difficult to decide who should get such reparations and who should pay them as slavery was legal under the laws of the colonies and the united states in an article for newsweek journalist lisa miller reported on the reaction to gates s article the enemy of individuality is groupthink gates says and here he holds everyone accountable recently he has enraged many of his colleagues in the african american studies field especially those campaigning for government reparations for slavery by insistently reminding them as he did in a new york times op ed last year that the folks who captured and sold blacks into slavery in the first place were also africans working for profit people wanted to kill me man gates says of the reaction to that op ed black people were so angry at me but we need to get some distance from the binary opposition we were raised in evil white people and good black people the world just isn t like that the letters page of the new york times of april 25 2010 featured criticism and examination of gates s views in response to his op ed eric foner professor of history at columbia university considered gates s emphasis on there being little discussion of african involvement in the slave trade to be unfounded stating that today virtually every history of slavery and every american history textbook includes this information author herb boyd who teaches african and african american history at the college of new rochelle and city college cuny argued that despite the complicity of african monarchs in the atlantic slave trade the united states was the greatest beneficiary and thus should be the main compensator lolita buckner inniss a professor at the cleveland marshall college of law argued that notwithstanding african involvement as abductors it was western slave owners as captors who perpetuated the practice even after the import trade was banned up until that recent piece people would have thought of him as someone who took a cautious and nuanced approach to questions like reparations gates has such an eminent reputation she said and so much gravitas many of us were troubled 34 35 cambridge arrest edit main article henry louis gates arrest controversy on july 16 2009 following a trip to china gates returned home to his residence in cambridge massachusetts near harvard square the front door was jammed his taxi driver attempted to help him gain entrance a passerby called police reporting a possible break in after describing to 911 an individual forcing the front door open cambridge police officers were dispatched following a confrontation gates was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct prosecutors later dropped the charges 36 the incident spurred a politically charged exchange of views about race relations and law enforcement throughout the united states the arrest attracted national attention after u s president barack obama declared that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting the 59 year old gates obama and then vice president joe biden eventually extended an invitation to gates and the cambridge officer who was involved to share a beer with them at the white house which they accepted 37 personal life edit gates married sharon lynn adams in 1979 38 they had two daughters together before divorcing in 1999 39 as of 2021 gates is married to historian dr marial iglesias utset 40 in 1974 gates learned transcendental meditation he reported 41 i had this spiritual event where it was like the top of my head opened up and i was just overwhelmed with emotion and tears just streamed down my face and i was exhilarated it was astonishing so i know that moment of transcendence is real gates is a distant relative of the actor john lithgow 42 awards and honors edit gates has received numerous honorary degrees including a doctor of letters from his alma mater the university of cambridge 43 gates was named a macarthur fellow in 1981 44 on april 19 1989 gates was elected a member of the american antiquarian society 45 in 1989 gates won an anisfield wolf book award for editing the 30 volumes of the schomburg library of nineteenth century black women writers 46 in 1993 gates was elected to the american academy of arts and sciences 47 in 1995 gates received the golden plate award of the american academy of achievement presented by awards council member quincy jones 48 gates was elected to the american philosophical society in 1995 49 gates was listed in time among its 25 most influential americans in 1997 50 ebony magazine listed gates among its 100 most influential black americans in 2005 and in 2009 included him on ebony s power 150 list as well as on its 2012 power 100 list of the most influential african americans 51 in 2002 the national endowment for the humanities selected gates for the jefferson lecture the u s federal government s highest honor for achievement in the humanities 52 his lecture was entitled mister jefferson and the trials of phillis wheatley 53 it was the basis of his later book the trials of phillis wheatley america s first black poet and her encounters with the founding fathers 2003 54 gates received the national humanities medal in 1998 55 gates was elected to the american academy of arts and letters in 1999 56 gates received the 2008 ralph lowell award from the corporation for public broadcasting the highest honor in the field of public television 57 on october 23 2006 gates was appointed the alphonse fletcher jr university professor at harvard university 58 in january 2008 gates co founded the root a website dedicated to african american perspectives published by the washington post company 59 gates serves as the chair for the selection committee for the alphonse fletcher sr fellowship program that is sponsored by the fletcher foundation the philanthropic arm of fletcher asset management he is on the boards of many notable institutions including the new york public library american repertory theater jazz at lincoln center the aspen institute the brookings institution the studio museum of harlem the naacp legal defense and educational fund heaf the harlem educational activities fund and the center for advanced study in the behavioral sciences located in stanford california 11 gates is a member of the council on foreign relations 60 in 2006 gates was inducted into the sons of the american revolution after tracing his lineage to john redman a free african american who fought in the revolutionary war 23 in 2010 gates became the first african american to have his genome fully sequenced he is also half of the first father son pair to have their genomes fully sequenced knome performed the analysis as part of the faces of america project gates s six part pbs documentary series the african americans many rivers to cross which he wrote executive produced and hosted earned the 2013 peabody award and an naacp image award in december 2014 gates was announced as one of 14 recipients of a 2015 alfred i dupont columbia university award for his documentary series the african americans many rivers to cross 61 62 63 in 2019 gates received the anne izard storytellers choice award 2019 for the annotated african american folktales which he edited with maria tatar in 2020 gates received an alfred i dupont columbia university award for his pbs documentary series reconstruction america after the civil war gates was awarded the 2019 chicago tribune literary award an annual recognition for lifetime achievement past recipients including salman rushdie elie wiesel margaret atwood tom wolfe and joyce carol oates 64 in 2020 gates received the 400 years of african american history commission s distinguished 400 award in 2020 gates was honored with the louis stokes community visionary award in 2020 gates received the muhammad ali voice of humanity award 65 in 2020 gates was named a walter channing cabot fellow by harvard university in 2020 gates earned an naacp image award nomination for outstanding literary work nonfiction for his book stony the road reconstruction white supremacy and the rise of jim crow the book was also named one of the new york times 100 notable books of 2019 and one of time magazine s 100 must read books of 2019 in 2021 gates was the recipient of the association for the study of african american life and history s asalh inaugural luminary award 66 in 2021 the national world war two museum in new orleans recognized gates with its american spirit award 67 in 2021 gates was honored by pen america with its audible literary service award 68 in 2021 gates was named a corresponding fellow of the british academy 69 and elected to the johnsonsians society in 2021 gates received the pbs beacon award 70 in 2021 gates received the mipad 100 network s most influential people of african descent lifetime achievement award in 2021 the historical society of pennsylvania honored gates with its founders award in 2021 gates became the seventh recipient of the american academy of arts and sciences don m randel award for humanistic studies 71 in 2021 gates received the gold honor medal for distinguished service to society and humanity from the national institute of social sciences 72 in 2022 the boston public library honored gates with its literary lights award 73 gates s web series black history in two minutes or so which he executive produces with robert f smith and dyllan mcgee earned five webby awards including for best podcast documentary and best video series education discovery 2020 best podcast documentary and best social video discovery education 2021 and best social video discovery education 2022 in 2023 artist kerry james marshall donated his portrait of gates to the fitzwilliam museum at the university of cambridge 74 in 2024 gates was awarded the prestigious barry prize for distinguished intellectual achievement by the american academy of sciences and letters 75 in 2025 gates was awarded the vilcek prize for excellence in literary scholarship 76 in 2026 gates will receive an honorary degree from the university of oxford in their annual encaenia ceremony 77 bibliography edit this list is incomplete you can 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