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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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4 picks · 1995–1998

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Net Worth
annals of marketing ·

Henry Louis Gates on how a basketball star became the greatest corporate pitchman of all time.

King of Cats
profiles ·

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on what the critic and novelist Albert Murray inspired in generations of black intellectuals.

Hating Hillary
a reporter at large ·

In a piece written while Hillary Clinton was still the First Lady, Henry Louis Gates examined her life, her career, and her detractors.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
annals of race ·

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discusses the Simpson verdict and the Million Man March with Wynton Marsalis, Spike Lee, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.