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Africa's Great Civilizations is a PBS six-hour television series hosted and written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It aired on PBS in the United States in February 2017.. In the series, Gates chronicles African history starting with the birth of humankind to the start of the 20th century.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. noted that Crafts referred to historical figures and actual places in her novel; among those were the Cosgroves, found in the Virginia census; Mr. Henry, a Presbyterian minister in Stafford County, Virginia; and Jane Johnson, a slave from John H. Wheeler's Washington, DC household, who gained freedom in 1855 in ...
Hannah Bond, also known by her pen name Hannah Crafts (born c. 1830s), [1] was an American writer who escaped from slavery in North Carolina about 1857 and went to the North. . Bond settled in New Jersey, likely married Thomas Vincent, and became a teac
Gates discusses the history of black slaves brought to Mexico and Peru during the 1500s-1600s, in addition to the culture that is now lived by their descendants.The census in Mexico and Peru do not have a category for race, and some activists want to bring this category back because without it, many people ignore the racism existing in their ...
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is a six-part documentary miniseries written and presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It aired for the first time on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the fall of 2013, beginning with episode 1, "The Black Atlantic (1500–1800)", on October 22, 8–9 p.m. ET on PBS, and every consecutive Tuesday through to episode 6, "A More Perfect Union (1968 ...
During an episode of The View on Tuesday, January 2, the historian and host of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr., appeared on-air to give Goldberg, 68, some shocking news.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas Books 1999, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9) is a compendium of Africana studies including African studies and the "Pan-African diaspora" inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois' project of an Encyclopedia Africana.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote, produced, and narrates the series. Gates said the series was framed around the question: "If Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. woke ...