Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Historian • Critic • Writer • Educator • Academic

Birth Date: September 16, 1950

Age: 74 years old

Birth Place: Piedmont, West Virginia

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Great Migrations: A People on the MoveStream

Executive Producer
Series
2025

GospelStream

Host
Docuseries
2024

Gospel Live!

Host
Special
2024

The 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Host
Show
2023

The 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Host
Show
2022

Making Black America: Through the GrapevineStream

Executive Producer
Miniseries
2022

Making Black America: Through the GrapevineStream

Host
Miniseries
2022

Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesStream

Executive Producer
Miniseries
2022

Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesStream

Self
Miniseries
2022

Common Ground With Jane Whitney

Guest
Show
2021

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings

Guest
Show
2021

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings

Host
Show
2021

The Black ChurchStream

Host
Docuseries
2021
89%

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

Executive Producer
Show
2021

To The Manor Born: Glenn Close, John Waters

Host
Show
2021

Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)

Executive Producer
Movie
2021
100%

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 2020

Host
Show
2020

History With David Rubenstein

Guest
Series
2020

Reconstruction

Host
Show
2019

Reconstruction

Writer
Show
2019

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Host
Show
2019

Today With Hoda & Jenna

Guest
Show
2019

Railroad Ties

Actor
Movie
2019

Today 3rd Hour

Guest
Show
2018

To Dine For With Kate Sullivan

Guest
Show
2018

Detroit: Comeback City

Self
Show
2018

Poetry in America

Guest
Show
2018

Africa's Great Civilizations

Executive Producer
Show
2017

Africa's Great Civilizations

Host
Show
2017

Africa's Great Civilizations

Producer
Show
2017

Africa's Great Civilizations

Writer
Show
2017

Birth of a Movement

Executive Producer
Show
2017

Birth of a Movement

Self
Show
2017

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Executive Producer
Show
2016

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

Host
Show
2016

The Daily Show with Trevor NoahStream

Guest
Talk
2015

The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream

Guest
Talk
2015

Late Night With Seth MeyersStream

Guest
Talk
2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonStream

Guest
Talk
2014

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Executive Producer
Show
2013

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Host
Show
2013

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Writer
Show
2013

The Real

Guest
Talk
2013

Mankind Decoded

Self
Show
2013

Totally Biased With W. Kamau BellStream

Guest
Series
2012

Finding Your RootsStream

Executive Producer
Reality
2012

Finding Your RootsStream

Host
Reality
2012

Finding Your RootsStream

Writer
Reality
2012

CBS This Morning

Guest
Show
2012

Black in Latin America

Executive Producer
Show
2011

Black in Latin America

Host
Show
2011

Black in Latin America

Writer
Show
2011

Overheard With Evan Smith

Guest
Show
2010

A Conversation With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Guest
Show
2010

Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Host
Show
2010

Sanjay Gupta, MD

Guest
Show
2009

Looking for Lincoln

Host
Show
2009

African American Lives 2

Host
Show
2008

La Plaza -- Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One

Guest
Show
2008

Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One

Guest
Show
2007

African American Lives

Host
Show
2006

The Colbert Report

Guest
Talk
2005

A Place of Our Own

Actor
Show
2004

America Beyond the Color Line With Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Host
Show
2004

Tavis Smiley

Guest
Talk
2004

A Place of Our Own

Self
Movie
2004

The View

Guest
Talk
1997

Great Railway Journeys

Host
Show
1994

Charlie RoseStream

Guest
Talk
1991

The SimpsonsStream

Guest Voice
Himself
Series
1989
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