Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an author, documentary filmmaker, essayist, and literary critic. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. As of 2014, he has written seventeen books and created thirteen documentary films and film series. Show
DNA testing shows an admixture of 60% European, 34% African, and 6% Asian (1), and that his family descends from the Yoruba nation in the country of Benin. (2). From "Native Sons of Liberty" By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. The New York Times, August 6, 2006:
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