LIDF Presents A Conversation with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

An American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual, Dr. Gates 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.

Dr. Gates serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African American Research.