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Professor asks residents to help solve mystery

By dcx on  From washingtonexaminer.com
ELAINE BLAISDELL Cumberland Times-News CUMBERLAND, Md. Harvard University Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery — who is Gates' great-great grandfather? Through genealogical records, the Gates family history can be traced back to Jane Gates, a slave who lived on Greene Street. Jane, who was born in 1819, had five...Read Full Story

Report: Henry Louis Gates Case Was Not About Racial Profiling

By Worshiper on  From blackvoices.com
A recent report to be published Thursday in the Boston Globe is set to show that the Cambridge Police Department does not use racial profiling, as it was accused of doing during the controversial case last summer involving Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates. The report, compiled by the New England Center of Investigative Reporting, analyzed 392 disorderly conduct arrests between 2004 and 2009. During that time, 57 percent of those arrested were white, and 34 percent were black. These numbers...Read Full Story

Nation of Islam Attacks Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Op-Ed Essay on Slave Trade

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The Nation of Islam attacks Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s NY Times op-ed on ending the slavery blame game. The Nation of Islam has unloaded on Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in its Final Call newspaper, over an April 22, 2010 Op-Ed piece for The New York Times titled “ Ending the Slavery Blame-Game ,” in which he argued that a moral, historic, political and economic equivalency exists between the culpability and responsibility of some Africans who participated...Read Full Story

Officer and Professor Gates Faulted for Confrontation at Home‎

By Worshiper on  From bvblackspin.com
Never let it be said that things don't balance out in this country. They do - even when the imbalance is particularly lopsided. Even though the incident happened over a year ago, people barely remember it and it lasted only six minutes, a report into the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley has been released by the 12-member Cambridge Review Committee , the body commissioned by city leaders to figure out what went wrong. What they...Read Full Story

The Presumption of Guilt:The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

By ibhmagazine on  From insideblackhollywood.com
The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America by Charles Ogletree Palgrave Macmillan Hardcover, $25.00 256 pages ISBN: 978-0-230-10326-9 “This book is about more than the arrest of one man. It is abut how we need to examine our criminal justice system to ensure that fairness, not power, is the currency of our system. When we move from a presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt, we diminish our sense of community and...Read Full Story
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"Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates Jr. hunting for great-great grandfather" CUMBERLAND, Md. -- Harvard University Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County, Maryland, who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery -- who is Gates’ great-great grandfather? I admire the way Henry Louis Gates has rolled with the punches as genealogical data from genetics have...  
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Come in and find family at the library! “Faces of America,” (DVD) with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. turns again to ...  
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E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research. Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the director of the Du Bois Institute. Hubbard will work on a book-length project titled “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Luminous Darkness.” He puts Du Bois ...  
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The hamlet was featured regularly in the column. Mr. Sylvester had a summer cottage in Montauk and Mrs. Crowley would visit him there with her husband, James Crowley, whom she married in January of 1953. She was working with a printing company ...  
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Ogletree has written and co-edited numerous books, among them "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr." (June 2010); "When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice" (2009); "From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State ...  
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He stopped doing prime-time conferences long ago. At his last one, in July 2009, he spoke off-the-cuff about the arrest of his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates. White House officials say Obama regularly sits for interviews and takes questions ...  
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Martha's Vineyard, home to many writers with national and international reputations – the late William Styron, David McCullough, Tom Clancy, Henry Louis Gates, Geraldine Brooks, and Edward Hoagland come to mind – has been able, until now, to support ...  
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RUSTON – Services for former prosecutor as well as defense lawyer James Lewis will be Saturday. He died Jan. 29. He was a former Marine Corps captain, taught business law at UL-Monroe, was a prosecutor in Grant and Winn parishes and was a defense ...  
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“We had three one-two finishes that provided the depth we needed to pull off the win against Beverly,” coach Brian Crowley said. Ethan Levine and Nate Fowler in the 1,000; Nolan Raimo and Conrad Rousseau in the 50-yard hurdles; and James Wigglesworth ...  
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Wilbur and Katherine B. McMahon elementary schools. It is located on the Commons. Kathryn Crowley is the superintendent of schools and James Gibney is the principal. Public education in Little Compton dates back to 1698, when school was conducted in ...  
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