Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most widely recognized African American scholar in America. He's the director of the W.E.B. DeBois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University, author of the 2007 book "Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own," and the host of the groundbreaking PBS television miniseries "African American Lives," exploring the genealogy of prominent African Americans. Gates spoke at the University of Kansas as part of the Hall Center for the Humanities Lecture Series.
