Henry Louis Gates Jr.
American literary critic
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| 2025 | Gates was awarded the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship. |
| January 28 2025 | Hosted 'Great Migrations: A People on the Move', a four-part PBS series |
| 2024 | Gates was awarded the prestigious Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. |
| 2023 | Continued involvement with AP African American Studies course development. |
| February 26 2023 | Voiced himself in 'The Simpsons' episode 'Carl Carlson Rides Again' |
| February 18 2023 | Published an op-ed titled 'Who's Afraid of Black History?' in The New York Times, contributing to public discourse on Black history and cultural studies. |
| 2022 | Co-authored 'Who's Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race' with Andrew S. Curran, published by Harvard University Press. |
| 2022 | Involved in the creation of AP African American Studies, a new college-level course created by the College Board for high-school students. |
| October 2022 | Hosted and wrote 'Making Black America: Through the Grapevine', a four-part PBS series |
| July 2022 | Announced he would serve as editor-in-chief of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. |
| 2021 | Gates received numerous honors including the ASALH Inaugural Luminary Award, the National World War Two Museum's American Spirit Award, PEN America's Audible Literary Service Award, and was named a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. |
| 2020 | Gates received multiple awards including the 400 Years of African American History Commission's Distinguished 400 Award, the Louis Stokes Community Visionary Award, and the Muhammad Ali Voice of Humanity Award. |
| October 2019 | Appeared as an actor in HBO's 'Watchmen' television series, playing a fictional version of himself as Secretary of the Treasury |
| April 9 2019 | Executive produced and presented 'Reconstruction: America After the Civil War', a four-hour PBS series |
| 2017 | Published two significant works: 'The Annotated African American Folktales' with Maria Tatar through Liveright-W.W. Norton, and 'The Penguin Portable Nineteenth Century African American Women Writers' with Hollis Robbins. |
| February 2017 | Executive produced, wrote, and presented 'Africa's Great Civilizations', a six-part PBS series |
| November 15 2016 | Wrote, presented, and narrated 'Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise', a four-part PBS series |
| October 2013 | Executive produced, wrote, and hosted 'The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross', a six-part PBS series |
| 2012 | Began hosting PBS television series Finding Your Roots - with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| April 19 2011 | Served as executive producer, writer, and presenter for 'Black in Latin America' on PBS |
| 2010 | Collaborated with Kwame Anthony Appiah to publish the 'Encyclopedia of Africa: Two-Volume Set' through Oxford University Press. |
| 2010 | Gates became the first African American to have his genome fully sequenced, and was part of the first father-son pair to have their genomes fully sequenced. |
| 2010 | Hosted Faces of America, a four-part PBS series examining the genealogy of 12 North Americans of diverse ancestry. |
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