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Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, will discuss genealogy and genetics in America at this year’s Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture on Oct. 13. Photo courtesy Flickr/jon irons

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Black America's Promises and Perils

One of the most prominent transmitters of African American history and culture alive today—Henry Louis Gates Jr.—is more widely known for being arrested on suspicion of breaking into his own …

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