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Encarta Africana: From Du Bois to John Coltrane
February 13, 2003
Henry Louis Gates Jr. director, Du Bois Institute, Harvard

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses the comprehensive project, Encarta Africana.

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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
James Orbinski
00:59:29
Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
The Obama Year
Michael Porter
00:43:20
Harvard economist and business guru Michael E. Porter, pundit and advisor to presidents past David Gergen, Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier, and Atlantic Monthly senior editor Jack Beatty mix it up with a frank assessment of the President Obama's progress on his new agenda.
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Michael Sandel
00:55:00
Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action"
Image of In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Crown (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages
Image of Colored People: A Memoir
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Vintage (1995)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
Image of The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2003)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
Image of Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
Image of Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Author:
Publisher: Princeton University Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages
Image of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Publisher: Vintage (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1989)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Image of The Future of the Race
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West
Publisher: Vintage (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
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