"I am so excited to be in conversation with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. whose work across the African diaspora is unrivaled," says Manyika. "As the founding director of the Hutchins Center--the world's preeminent research center dedicated to African and African American research at Harvard University--Professor Gates is not only a distinguished scholar and historian but a prominent public intellectual who brings his broad knowledge of the African Diaspora into the American living room. From his Emmy-winning documentary series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross to his ground-breaking genealogy series, Finding Your Roots, Professor Gates is a pioneer whose life's work deepens and enriches our understanding of history. I can think of no one who better embodies the spirit of Conversations Across the Diaspora than Professor Gates."
The Museum of the African Diaspora in SF has an exciting live, online program coming up April 9 with historian, filmmaker, and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., well loved for Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its seventh season on PBS.
A prominent public intellectual who brings his broad knowledge of the African Diaspora into the American living room, Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program--Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award. He is the founding director of the Hutchins Center--the world's preeminent research center dedicated to African and African American research at Harvard University. More from his very impressive bio is below in the press release (24 books, 21 documentary films, 56 honorary degrees!).
The live conversation is part of MoAD's monthly online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, hosted by novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika and launched in April 2020 to bring audiences sheltering at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; Senator Cory Booker; and more.
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The Museum of the African Diaspora in SF has an exciting live, online program coming up April 9 with historian, filmmaker, and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., well loved for Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its seventh season on PBS.
A prominent public intellectual who brings his broad knowledge of the African Diaspora into the American living room, Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program--Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award. He is the founding director of the Hutchins Center--the world's preeminent research center dedicated to African and African American research at Harvard University. More from his very impressive bio is below in the press release (24 books, 21 documentary films, 56 honorary degrees!).
The live conversation is part of MoAD's monthly online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, hosted by novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika and launched in April 2020 to bring audiences sheltering at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; Senator Cory Booker; and more.
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"I am so excited to be in conversation with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. whose work across the African diaspora is unrivaled," says Manyika. "As the founding director of the Hutchins Center--the world's preeminent research center dedicated to African and African American research at Harvard University--Professor Gates is not only a distinguished scholar and historian but a prominent public intellectual who brings his broad knowledge of the African Diaspora into the American living room. From his Emmy-winning documentary series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross to his ground-breaking genealogy series, Finding Your Roots, Professor Gates is a pioneer whose life's work deepens and enriches our understanding of history. I can think of no one who better embodies the spirit of Conversations Across the Diaspora than Professor Gates."
The Museum of the African Diaspora in SF has an exciting live, online program coming up April 9 with historian, filmmaker, and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., well loved for Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its seventh season on PBS.
A prominent public intellectual who brings his broad knowledge of the African Diaspora into the American living room, Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program--Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award. He is the founding director of the Hutchins Center--the world's preeminent research center dedicated to African and African American research at Harvard University. More from his very impressive bio is below in the press release (24 books, 21 documentary films, 56 honorary degrees!).
The live conversation is part of MoAD's monthly online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, hosted by novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika and launched in April 2020 to bring audiences sheltering at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; Senator Cory Booker; and more.
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The Museum of the African Diaspora in SF has an exciting live, online program coming up April 9 with historian, filmmaker, and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., well loved for Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its seventh season on PBS.
A prominent public intellectual who brings his broad knowledge of the African Diaspora into the American living room, Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program--Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award. He is the founding director of the Hutchins Center--the world's preeminent research center dedicated to African and African American research at Harvard University. More from his very impressive bio is below in the press release (24 books, 21 documentary films, 56 honorary degrees!).
The live conversation is part of MoAD's monthly online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, hosted by novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika and launched in April 2020 to bring audiences sheltering at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; Senator Cory Booker; and more.
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