Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.Read full biography

TV Shows

8 Tracked Shows

Watchmen

Ended0%

HBO

as Skip Gates · 2019

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle

Likely Renewed82%

NBC

as Self · 2019

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Ended0%

CBS

as Self · 2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Likely Renewed82%

NBC

as Self · 2014

Finding Your Roots

Likely Renewed82%

PBS

as Self - Host · 2012

The Colbert Report

Ended0%

Comedy Central

2005

The View

Likely Renewed62%

ABC

as Self - Guest · 1997

The Simpsons

Likely Renewed97%

FOX

as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) · 1989

Other Credits

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History (2026), Great Migrations: A People on the Move (2025), Gospel (2024), Making Black America (2022), The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (2021), America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (2020), Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019), Africa's Great Civilizations (2017), Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016), The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013), Faces of America (2010), America: The Story of Us (2010), America Beyond the Color Line (2004), Wonders of the African World (1999), Great Railway Journeys (1980)

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