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On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home by local police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who was responding to a 911 caller's report of men breaking and entering the residence. The arrest initiated a series of events that unfolded under the spotlight of the international ...
Gates was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia, [2] to Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates (1916–1987) and Henry Louis Gates Sr. (c. 1913 –2010). He grew up in neighboring Piedmont. His father worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor, while his mother cleaned houses. [3]
This Week in Blackness originally published the controversial "Notes From a Phantom Negro: Skip Gates, Please Sit Down" [3] discussing the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. which was then republished by Salon.com [4] The blog also originally posted "Message From The Average Black Person" [5] which later was published by The Huffington Post [6 ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in ... his 1977 arrest for driving without a license and running a stop sign in Albuquerque, N.M., when he was in his early 20s ...
A scene in which Sanderson arrests Tom Haverford in his own van mirrors the real-life controversial 2009 arrest of Henry Louis Gates. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by 4.22 million households, an 800,000-household drop from the previous week's season premiere, "Pawnee Zoo".
Dr. Henry Louis Gates of "Finding Your Roots" speaks during the PBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour 2019 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 29, 2019 in ...
A screenshot of a headline shared on Facebook claims Japanese prosecutors are working to arrest Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally ...
On July 22, 2009, Graves stated to the media that "there's nothing post-racial about U.S.", [3] as he responded to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. In February 2021, Graves said that the biggest challenge for African-American entrepreneurs is scale, and that 96 percent of Black-owned businesses are sole-proprietorships. [4 ...