Biography
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
TV credits
Rated 5.3 out of 10
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
Rated 0.0 out of 10
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Rated 10.0 out of 10
Gospel
2024
Rated 6.0 out of 10
Making Black America
2022
Rated 0.0 out of 10
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
Rated 0.0 out of 10
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Rated 7.6 out of 10
Watchmen
2019
Rated 7.0 out of 10
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Rated 3.3 out of 10
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Rated 9.0 out of 10
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
Rated 6.1 out of 10
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Rated 5.8 out of 10
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Rated 10.0 out of 10
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
Rated 6.5 out of 10
Finding Your Roots
2012
Rated 8.2 out of 10
America: The Story of Us
2010
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Faces of America
2010
Rated 6.9 out of 10
The Colbert Report
2005
Rated 7.5 out of 10
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
Rated 5.3 out of 10
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Rated 0.0 out of 10
Wonders of the African World
1999
Rated 4.3 out of 10
The View
1997
Rated 8.0 out of 10
The Simpsons
1989
Rated 7.0 out of 10
Great Railway Journeys
1980