Henry Louis Gates. And TV was on kind of like the hearth in New England. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and . Help me understand why this matters. You have to get permission. Henry Louis Gates, (born Sept. 16, 1950, Keyser, W.Va., U.S.), U.S. critic and scholar. #FindingYourRoots#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays. Now think about that. GROSS: It has been a great honor to speak with you. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? I love you being black. It's the damnedest thing I ever heard. Barack Obama understood that and, I think, certainly helped our nation to heal. So I would say, you know, no, I don't think so. CLIP. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Family. It doesn't exist. An error has occured while loading the map. I've been looking all over Africa and I couldn't find anybody, so I ended up here. They want them to hire an additional fact-checker and an independent genealogist to check for accuracy. Be sure to watch Finding Your Roots on PBS on Tuesday nights! The headline read " DEATH OF 'AUNT JANE GATES ' ": Last night at 11 o'clock "Aunt Jane Gates," colored, a . GATES: I said, thank God. GATES: Now, we don't do blood anymore, right? Author, Journalist, Industrialist, Businessman, American filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Born on September 16, 1950 GROSS: (Laughter) So I want to change the subject a little bit. Thank you for being you. You were 9 years old when you found her picture. Listen to National Gallery of Art panel discussions featuring Image of the Black series editors David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as well as HUP editor Sharmila Sen: Part I | Part II | Part III; In conjunction with Harvard's Du Bois Institute, The Root hosted an "Image of the Week" series featuring art from the Image of the Black archive. But when I started the series, it wasn't called "Finding Your Roots." He has chaired Harvard University's department of Afro-American Studies for many years. They spoke in front of an audience last May when Gates received WHYY's annual Lifelong Learning Award. He couldn't hear me, couldn't see me. There are a couple of ways that your real-life book might differ from those the show, which Ive outlined below, but on the whole, books are pretty fabulous. If you remember, it was called "African-American Lives." My momma called me Skippy from the time I was born. A family history book is like the entire car. RELATED VIDEOS. If my areas of expertise do not align with your needs, check out my guide for finding a professional genealogist. You said that after - you had been getting death threats and these angry emails and everything. Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means "hardy warrior," is also descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the Nine Hostages. And they stayed home, and they read. GATES: And, you know, what's even more amazing, it's - one, it was my mother's third great grandfather - my fourth great grandfather. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages. I'm learning about things I didn't know anything about like Scotland, and the Black Watch, and the Royal Highlanders [a Scottish regiment].". As the host of the hit show Finding Your Roots, now in its sixth season on PBS, he helps guests like Ava DuVernay, Sean . I can do it. GROSS: Thank you for all of all of the things you've written for your TV shows, for your movies. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. And she's the cook for Claudette Colbert. Every reveal [on Finding Your Roots] is another chapter in world history. War, Thinking, Civilization. And then black people would tell each other - they would say, you know, be sure to watch "The Late Late Show" tonight because "Imitation Of Life," which is my favorite film - 1934, with Claudette Colbert. GATES: For which she paid cash. GATES: We know he was Irish from my DNA. in England and in the U.S. is the use of DNA. - Part 01 HD Watch. And the average African-American has less than 1 percent Native American ancestry, but they have 24 percent European ancestry. My mother was a seamstress, as you know. Meryl Schumacker is Board-certified genealogist no. And deep down, I realized in retrospect that my desire to make films was probably born about that time. *48.6% Sub-Saharan African. Students pose with Henry Louis Gates Jr. following Tuesday, Nov. 19's forum. Or they stayed home, and they drew. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Gates is one of many famous African-Americans with Irish heritage, including President Barack Obama and award-winning author Alice Walker. For the most part, genealogists compile their findings on your family history into a research report. They had two geneticists. Despite being known for playing the menacing Logan Roy in HBO's Succession, Gates Jr. explains how the formidable actor was reduced to tears by revelations about his family history. Listen 9:01. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950, Keyser, West Virginia, U.S.), American literary critic and scholar known for his pioneering theories of African and African American literature. Testing showed he had ancestors from sub-Saharan Africa, Ireland and England. GATES: Well, I was on "The View." (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "FINDING YOUR ROOTS"). 1. And my Y DNA, which is - comes in an unbroken chain, descends from this Irishman. CLIP. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. GATES: admixture, I'm 50 percent sub-Saharan African and 50 percent European and virtually no Native American ancestry, which really pisses my family off. And just the optics of a seeing a rich, white movie star pressure a black historian into suppressing information about this guy's slave-owning past and his family, that's really bad on all kinds of levels. Was this an equal sexual relationship? As we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King today, we're going to listen to an interview Terry recorded with historian Henry Louis Gates. Brian Cox's family history in Scotland is investigated by host Henry Louis Gates Jr. on a Season 9 episode of "Finding Your Roots. All that was on still in 1965 in syndication. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Some books function more like reference books on your ancestors, while others are formatted like short biographies. I mean, they know Donald Trump. And finally, PBS has a brand as a trusted provider of nonfiction entertainment, so they have to really safeguard that brand by making sure the stuff they present to viewers is accurate. I found the first edition when I was an adult. The Finding Your Roots host said discoveries about families like Cox's is a welcome lesson. They - but you're absolutely right. GATES: But I have an announcement to make GATES: For you. Things change. Presented and written by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., this series journeys deep into the ancestry of a group of remarkable individuals and provides new understanding of personal identity and American history. It's a horrible way to start, in a way. GROSS: Yeah. After that, everything stopped. "My idea was that I would reveal where in Africa, on a guest mother's mother's line, they had hailed from. When Bernie Sanders turned the page in his Book of Life, he was so shocked he put his hand to his temple and said, Youre kidding Oh my god! and burst out laughing. Members get extended access to PBS video on demand and more. And she come to - it's the woman who invents box pancake mix - right? GROSS: Is that too personal? He looked white. Armstrong Williams, a person I really admire and like, I ask him, and he said absolutely not. "We were able to give him his grandfather's heroism and nobility back, that's just such a great feeling." What percent would be from Europe? They had kids, and they're buried next to each other. We're all admixed. I'm going to be black. Biology matters. A plaque was unveiled in Cambridge in honour of Crummell and two other black pioneers: Gloria Carpenter . All rights reserved. Henry Louis Gates Jr. doesn't seem too worried about "critical race theory" or "white fragility" or "woke warriors" or any of those ridiculous buzzwords that get tossed around when . And it's just crazy. We have a genius, genetic genealogist, one of the pioneers of the field in CeCe Moore." This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. "Finding Your Roots" is essentially a pop genealogy show, right? GATES: But then they did another special test. And when they analyzed my mitochondrial DNA, it went to England. Update 1/31/23, 1:15 p.m. When I became a teenager, my father and I bonded. I told them that I did not want to know if I had any of the sort of - I don't know - the slam-dunk genes for Alzheimer's disease. Then he'd come back. GROSS: And it was reported as if it was a break-in, and a police officer came and arrested you. And we'd have the chess board set up. . This is called an admixture test. Jeff Daniels sits with "Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an episode from Season 9 on PBS. And I learned a lot about the medium. And another person to interpret my genetic data because it's 6 billion base pairs, right? And they would be published in the newspaper. One, dated Saturday, January 7, 1888, was from the Cumberland Evening Times. So I thought that I had a pretty good chance. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker . To be clear, I don't work for Finding Your Roots; I'm just a professional genealogist who knows people who have worked on the show and I was present for the filming of an episode. Maria Hinojosas Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Railway CEO, Maria Hinojosa Discovers Her Ancestor Founded a City, John Lithgows Family Fled The Dominican Republic. Of course not. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Over the course of his many years hosting history and genealogy shows on PBS, scholar and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. has guided dozens of people through emotional deep dives into their family histories, unearthed with the help of DNA and a team of expert . GROSS: Your father died not too long ago - a few years ago. "So I thought that the emotional apex would be an African American, knowing their African ethnic roots.". But maybe youre thinking, But Im not here for a research report. Books can take a long time to produce, so make sure youre clear on the timeline and payment schedule. The blog walks you through how to evaluate a genealogists resume, potential red flags, and tips for where to find qualified professionals online. She was quite a lady. But one story not told to most Irish elementary schoolchildren was of Niall's prolificacy. The fifth season of Gates' TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now running on PBS. Thanks to an encounter with a family scrapbook at a young age, ancestry fascinates Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Emmy-winning filmmaker, author and Harvard University professor raised in the tiny town of Piedmont, West Virginia. As with any project, be sure to hire a qualified professional who is either certified, accredited, has completed extensive training through recognized institutions, and/or has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. And they got the brothers in uniforms with swords and stuff coming out of the church with this sad, black church music. January 16, 2018. GATES: And they said, OK, we won't tell you. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Well talk with Gates about the process of finding . Yeah. (Well cover how to hire a genealogist later in this blog post.). Or they stayed home, and they listened to or played music. For $50,000, they sequenced my father, me and then 12 of the guests who were in "Faces Of America" - not a full genome but a dense genotyping. It makes sensethe format allows Mr. Gates to interpret the findings for the guest and audience by pointing to images and text and then talking about them. He was a free negro, as we would have said then. In front of all these people and all these viewers. However, it is perfectly acceptable to ask to view some sample pages or images to give you an idea of what youre getting. Genealogy is one of those things that you can keep doing forever, so itll be up to you, your genealogist, and your budget to determine a good stopping point for your project. References are not super common in this business due to privacy. Gates has apologized for not being more transparent in handling a controversial episode of the series he hosts on PBS, Finding Your Roots. GATES: Yeah. Some genealogists even offer digital or e-book options! GATES: And because it was PBS, we negotiated a deal with this company Illumina which sequences everybody. Published February 4, 2023 at 1:25 PM AKST. His expertise and experience eventually led him to TV, where he started working as a . PBS has delayed scheduling the show's third season. Long before he became the comforting presence on TV, Gates Jr. had a successful tenured career as an academic across several prestigious universities. African-Americans all think that they're a descendant from a Native American. And it turned out - my father used to say, you know, your mother's family is really distinguished, too? He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. They could probably find it out themselves. Millions of Irish Americans, especially those in New York, may be directly descended, like Gates, from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the most prolific warrior in Irish history. So obviously rape or, at best, cajoled sexuality was the cause, but there are exceptions. GROSS: And you got this information from the 1870 census. Henry Louis Gates, PBS, . You know, I try to - doing "Finding Your Roots" is a way to paying homage to my mother and father every year. GROSS: But you also wanted to know who were your African ancestors. Of course, you can do that through mitochondrial DNA," he told Newsweek. Henry Louis Gates Jr. reveals that he and John Lithgow are DNA cousins. Even the quality of the book design, paper, binding, etc., will vary substantially between a $5k and a $50k book. Combining family tree records with DNA genealogy technology, he initially pitched the show as "Alex Haley in a test tube" (Haley was the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family). And your driver was helping you - well, he was shoving his shoulder against the door trying to open it. But mutations exist. Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts the program, butas I understand ithe does not do the research into the guests family histories himself. We'll hear more after a short break. If so, youre in luck! After living in Lexington, Mass., following the death of his wife, Mr. Gates had resided for the past several years at the. And it's for my father. He is a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Some books have a lot of pictures, while others have zero or very few images. There are similar shows on TV, but the host knows why his is a cut above the rest. You may yet have your own Bernie Sanders-style moment of genealogy-fueled surprise in the near future (though I cant say whether itll be because youre related to Larry David). NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Jan 18, 2012. They had a medical doctor who specializes in sharing this information. Woodson was "keenly aware of the role of politics in the classroom," said Gates . So I'm out there. But we have a disproportionately higher risk of sickle cell. And I couldn't imagine what, but two sets of those fourth great-grandparents are from my mother's line. (These numbers have been updated since this post was written to reflect current market rates.) (PBS, 2019), and the related books, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, with Tonya Bolden (Scholastic, 2019), and Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White . And the only reason that I started making the series that became "Finding Your Roots" is because of that obituary and that photograph. For privacy reasons, it is not usually possible to get a sample of an entire book. It is the first known work of its kind and has great historical and literary significance. It is astonishing," he says, "that I have a kinship with someone (Niall of the Nine Hostages) dating back to the fourth century A.D.". His father worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor, while his mother cleaned houses, as described in his memoir Colored People (1994). A family history book can also be expensive, as weve covered, so its worth doing your research to find the best genealogist for your project. And your father was a tailor, which is why we GATES: And my mother went to Atlantic City. GROSS: Terry Gross interviewed Henry Louis Gates last May when he was in Philadelphia to accept the WHYY Lifelong Learning Award. GROSS: And I read you talking about this. Published February 4, 2023 at 5:25 PM EST. There is also the question of What is exhaustive? when it comes to family tree research. African American Lives welcomed guests like Quincy Jones, Chris Tucker, Mae C. Jemison, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. GATES: Maybe for Christmas, OK, that's fine (laughter). And he mustered in in Winchester, Va., on Christmas Day, 1778, and was mustered down the Continental Army in April of 1784. But the ancestry is being investigated against the will of the people being outed. Furthermore, he is credited for 14 documentaries, and some of the most noted ones are: let the church say, Amen, Africa's great civilization, and many more. The latest episode of Finding Your Roots airs on Tuesday January 31, and features 76-year-old Scottish actor Brian Cox. Accuracy and availability may vary. This will enable them to allocate more time towards researching that individual. If we apply those percentages to the last . Gates attended Yale University and the University of Cambridge. What is race? And we know from the analysis of my DNA that goes back to Ireland. Legend has it that it was Niall of the Nine Hostages who, on a raid in Wales, captured a young slave and brought him to Ireland. That slave would later escape, and go to become Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The video will be available shortly. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. GATES: Well, the average African-American GATES: The average African-American is 24 percent European. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: OK. And she would stand up and read their obituary, their eulogy. If youd like to get an idea about what its like working with a particular genealogist, read their testimonials or reviews. And they have a horse-drawn carriage. GROSS: OK. Gates accused the arresting officer, who is white, of . GROSS: Huge story. Watch the full episode at PBS.org/FindingYourRoots. But I think that you should have to get permission before someone is creeping around in your DNA. PBS. They were buried next to each other. After another successful round with African American Lives 2, with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Maya Angelou and more, Gates Jr. was given an instruction by PBS. And I wanted to be from them. "I'm descended from a white man, he says. Watching a list of 26 titles created 26 Jan 2019 A family history book typically displays the conclusions about your family history, without overly emphasizing what went into reaching those conclusions. I go, goodbye. GROSS: I've interviewed many people over the years. Related Links. ", When Brian Cox comes on #FindingYourRoots to find out his real familys #SuccessionJoin us tomorrow night on @PBS at 8/7c for an all new episode of Finding Your Roots with guests Brian Cox and @ViolaDavis! The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Risea timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. GROSS: So given this kind of really rich mix that you've just described and all the surprises that you've just described, what does race mean to you? Does race exist? It would be rather seeing restored the names of their enslaved ancestors." Listen 9:01. More research time equals more discoveries, enabling the researchers to uncover those mind-blowing records fit for television. His PBS series "Finding Your Roots" returns for its ninth season in January, and his latest documentary series . And one of the, you know, wonderful people on "The View" said did I think that Donald Trump is racist. . And what's the real showstopper for me is the fact that my three sets of my fourth great grandparents lived 18 miles from where I was born. The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. By Emily Guskin, Mahvish Shahid Khan and Amy Mitchell. And that imprinted this woman's story in my mind. I have the Ui Neil Haplotype. GROSS: But it's making me think of how much death figured into your formative thoughts - the death of your grandfather, which led you to see the picture of your great-great-grandmother, everybody's deaths through your mother memorialized in those obituaries. DAVIES: Henry Louis Gates spoke with Terry Gross before a live audience in Philadelphia last May. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. 799. 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