[PAR] [TLE] Henry Louis Gates Jr. [SEP] Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, 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.  He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. [PAR] [TLE] The Root (magazine) [SEP] The Root is an English-language American online magazine of African-American culture launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham, and was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group.
[PAR] [TLE] Henry Louis Gates Jr. [ SEP ] Henry Louis " Skip " Gates Jr. ( born September 16 , 1950 , in Keyser , West Virginia ) is an American literary critic , teacher , historian , 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 . He has discovered what are considered the first books by African - American writers , both of them women , and has published extensively on appreciating African - American literature as part of the Western canon . [PAR] [TLE] The Root ( magazine ) [ SEP ] The Root is an English - language American online magazine of African - American culture launched on January 28 , 2008 , by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham , and was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary , The Slate Group .
The Root was launched by which Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard?
The Root was launched by which Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard ?
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.