Dr. Henry Louis Gates, the renowned Harvard University scholar, historian and researcher on African Americans and Africans in the world, will address Reconstruction and voter suppression during a virtual talk scheduled to air live in mid-September.
Gates is host of Finding Your Roots, a genealogy series that airs on PSB and now is in its seventh season. He is author of 25 books and 23 documentary films, including this year’s The Black Church: This is our Story, This is Our Song and 2013’s The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross, which won an Emmy Award and Peabody Award, among others.
The conversation with Gates will be moderated by Jason Shelton, director of the Center for African American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. It begins at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. It is free.
Click here to get more information and to get a reminder sent to you on the day of the event:https://www.uta.edu/maverickspeakers/fall-2021/henry-louis-gates.php
