Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy · 2021
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction · 2010
- honorary doctor of Caen University · 2007
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award · 2004
- Jefferson Lecture · 2002
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- National Humanities Medal · 1998
- Lillian Smith Book Award · 1994
- George Polk Award · 1992
- American Book Awards · 1989
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards · 1989
- MacArthur Fellows Program · 1981
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction · 2014 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction · 2010 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction · 2005 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction · 2003 · nominated
Filmography26 titles
Gospel
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
America: The Story of the US
America: The Story of Us
The Simpsons
Africa's Great Civilizations
13th
Not Black Enough
Watchmen
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
The Colbert Report
Birth of a Movement
Finding Your Roots
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
The View
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Looking for Lincoln