HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. An Emmy-, Du Pont-, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, he has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films about Black history, most recently Great Migrations. His groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, Finding Your Roots, which received a Primetime Emmy nomination, just concluded its 11th season. His latest book, The Black Box: Writing the Race, was named as a New York Times 100 Best Books of the Year. Most recently, he was awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal from the NAACP and was elected an honorary fellow by the Royal Academy of Arts in England. His next documentary series, Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History, will air in February on PBS.