Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

Imagine finding a rare fossil that you’ve been desperate to find - only for it to be put at risk.

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Jim Correale. I sometimes watch the PBS show Finding Your Roots, where Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents guests information about their ancestry. With researchers ...

“Colored People: A Memoir” follows the coming-of-age story of literary critic and professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., as a young black man in Piedmont, West Virginia. This memoir offers insight into how ...

As noted historian Henry Louis Gates has written, the implementation of Granger’s order was not “instant magic” for the enslaved people of Texas.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., best known for helping people and celebrities uncover ancestral connections on his long-running PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” has made headlines again with a viral ...

Pope Leo XIV may be one of the most powerful people in the world, so it only makes sense he is related to some pretty powerful people, too. “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. said ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reveals Pope Leo Is Related to 7 Public Figures — Including Madonna Pope Leo XIV is the first American-born pope in the history of the papacy.