Henry Louis Gates Jr. of 'Finding Your Roots' helps PBS bring something new with 'GOSPEL,' a series that dives into the influential genre. The post A Sound That Defines A People: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Announces New PBS Series ‘GOSPEL’ appeared first on Black America Web.
PBS has halted the third season production of Finding Your Roots after an investigation proved the omission of Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor violated ethical guidelines. The…
Massachusetts — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard scholar, and Rudolph P. Byrd, a professor at Emory University, say their research for a new edition of “Cane” documents that Toomer was “a Negro who decided to pass for white.”
