Birth Name:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Birth Place:
Piedmont, West Virginia, United States
Date of Birth:
September 16, 1950
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Black and Irish
The American scholar and professor at Harvard University is well known for hosting the television series, African American Lives and African American Lives 2, where he helped notable African Americans find their ancestry. In the first series, it was found that Gates is partly descended from the Yoruba people of Nigeria and also has Irish heritage.
Source:
African American Lives: Television series
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he should do a Lumbee special and show Lumbee black roots in north carolina!!
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Gates is exactly 50% white 50% black. His DNA test revealed this in African American Lives.
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i think she is fully black if she was mixed race she would say i mean who lies about where they come from
ps. keri hilson rules i reccomend that you buy her album in a perfect world
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I don’t know,I saw a little piece of his show,and he seem to stay in sub-sahara when it comes to black people over here.However I already show that many black people were brought from north Africa as slaves also,but he doesn’t even look up there
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agreed.
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his show is tha shit!
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That Show African American lives is awesome you should all watch it when it comes on PBS its the best show ever if you are into ethnicities like i am
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