[Peace] Wednesday, April 4 / Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to speak on campus

[Karen Medina]

[People may remember Dr. Gates was the man involved in the Cambridge
arrest, but he is going to be here talking about his research, "Blacks
in Latin America" -karen medina
(From wikipedia entries on Henry_Louis_Gates and
Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy)
On July 16, 2009, Gates returned home from a trip to China to find the
door to his house jammed. His driver attempted to help him gain
entrance. A passer-by called police reporting a possible break-in
after seeing windows being broken. A Cambridge police officer was
dispatched. The resulting confrontation resulted in Gates being
arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.]

Title:       "Blacks in Latin America"
Speaker: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Date:      Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Time:      7pm
Location: Gregory Hall, room 112
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. was the first African American to
receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received
numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and
development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002,
Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of
his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities".
Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries, including the
history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the
biographical African American Lives and Faces of America. Gates sits
on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research
institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute for African and African American Research.