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Henry Louis Gates’s eight succinct quotes on years bring scholarly depth to a compact format. His observations weave history and culture, offering a concise, informed perspective on how years influence society.

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In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most…

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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty.…

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I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...'…

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Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can…

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What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell…

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Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge…

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The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple…

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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had…

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In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the…

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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

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I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

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I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

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I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to…

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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All…

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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

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Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

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My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

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