CLIP. But the ancestry is being investigated against the will of the people being outed. Finding the right genealogist for your projectmaking sure they are qualified, signing a contract, etccan be a confusing task, even if you have been researching your tree for awhile. GATES: OK. Africa's Great Civilizations | show | 2017 | Official Trailer. References are not super common in this business due to privacy. It's called the Beer Summit. I have the Ui Neil Haplotype. GROSS: And you got this information from the 1870 census. GATES: Don't you? So I thought that I had a pretty good chance. If youd like to get an idea about what its like working with a particular genealogist, read their testimonials or reviews. Henry Louis Gates Jr. . GATES: Well, the average African-American GATES: The average African-American is 24 percent European. And I'm wondering if being laid up from an injury for a while affected your desire to - and your time to immerse yourself in books. And I gave it to her for birthday. So obviously rape or, at best, cajoled sexuality was the cause, but there are exceptions. You can read more about genealogists specialties in my blog post on the subject. I'm here to find my roots. And they fought in the Revolutionary War. GROSS: Terry Gross interviewed Henry Louis Gates last May when he was in Philadelphia to accept the WHYY Lifelong Learning Award. It may include images of records, text, a family tree chart, maps, and any number of other elements related to your family history (though some family history books contain very few images). 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. In general, however, a family history book is a bound or digital book with sections devoted to your ancestors. The fifth season of Gates' TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now running on PBS. It's a gift - and for my mom. Popular ancestry show Finding Your Roots is deep into its ninth season but host Henry Louis Gates Jr. admits he's "surprised" the show has worked so well with white people included. And your driver was helping you - well, he was shoving his shoulder against the door trying to open it. When it came to the bedroom, it seems that Niall of the Nine Hostages was even more fearless and energetic than he was on the battlefield. When I did Morgan Freeman's family tree, it was obvious through his DNA that he was descended from a white man who was an overseer on a plantation in Mississippi. But on the other hand, Terry, there were a lot of people who never forgave the country for electing a black man to the White House. Many thanks! Carlos Figueroa. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Henry Louis Gates says, Would you please turn the page?. Long before he became the comforting presence on TV, Gates Jr. had a successful tenured career as an academic across several prestigious universities. And I cluster more toward the Yoruba than any - because 50 percent GATES: Of my ancestry is from sub-Saharan Africa. And I was in the hospital for six weeks. Watching a list of 26 titles created 26 Jan 2019 And the black woman says all she wants is enough money to have a New Orleans-type funeral. Now, Gates himself has put out a statement about the investigation, apologizing for not being transparent about his editing decisions, but in it that apology, he never says that the pressure from Affleck was the direct reason why he edited-out the slavery material. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. For privacy reasons, it is not usually possible to get a sample of an entire book. Gates is one of many famous African-Americans with Irish heritage, including President Barack Obama and award-winning author Alice Walker. Those same tens of thousands of American who saw the show are also unlikely to distinguish "soldier" from a one who is a member of a "regiment", "troop", "militia" or the "Native Guard". Henry Louis Gates : biography 16 September 1950 - Supporters of Afrocentrics such as Molefi Asante and others say that they assert not that the study of Africa should be exclusively Black, but that the approach of Afrocentricity is critical for setting up black people as agents of their own history. I only did black people. For tips, you can check out my three-part series of blog posts about How to Find a Professional Genealogist. Henry serves as a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. GATES: Well, I think that you should have the right to - you have to ask someone. Memories, Mean, People. And the last thing I did before I went to bed on July 2, 1960, was to look up the word estimable. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a popular and revered scholar who has written many acclaimed books and made many acclaimed documentaries about black history (and was also forced to drink a beer with the . 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. GROSS: I've interviewed many people over the years. 1. After living in Lexington, Mass., following the death of his wife, Mr. Gates had resided for the past several years at the. "And I go, 'What? Copyright 2019 NPR. I said, well, I've never met Donald Trump. Two men at the center of the controversy are linked by their Irish heritage. Race is a social construction. 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. Gates has apologized for not being more transparent in handling a controversial episode of the series he hosts on PBS, Finding Your Roots. I go, goodbye. 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 we'd have the chess board set up. FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Nine is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH . The research for the stories on Finding Your Roots is completed by a team of people, including several professional genealogists who specialize in different subject areas, such as genetic genealogy. Birth of Henry Louis Gates, Sr. Terry will be one of the guests whose family history is explored next year in the sixth season of the show. The show proved so successful, it was continued in various guises before eventually developing into Finding Your Roots. They know about their heritage.' "militia" and "Native Guard" which all seem "soldier related" even if inaccurate. Things change. If youre a celebrity or public figure, then probably yes! My father loved sports, and I didn't care about sports that much. Lucy was the daughter of Lou Isaac Clifford and Elizabeth Jane Redman. GATES: And because it was PBS, we negotiated a deal with this company Illumina which sequences everybody. But mutations exist. Henry Louis Gates Jr. reveals that he and John Lithgow are DNA cousins. And by in traction, I mean on my back with my foot up with weights. HENRY LOUIS GATES: Well, let's see what we found on your mom's side of the family. Thank you for being you. It was better to be free than be a slave, but you were free but not free. DEGGANS: Well, Professor Gates has a reputation as one of the country's leading historians, so the question of his ethical standards is kind of important. But I also watched TV. ", 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! So my whole life is really an attempt to honor and please my parents and make them proud of me, you know. And the average African-American has less than 1 percent Native American ancestry, but they have 24 percent European ancestry. He loved the news. GATES: But I have an announcement to make GATES: For you. The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. By Emily Guskin, Mahvish Shahid Khan and Amy Mitchell. GROSS: I saw his picture in the obituary. And deep down, I realized in retrospect that my desire to make films was probably born about that time. GATES: No. Now she was born in 1819; died in 1888. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored 17 books and created 14 documentary films . And you don't have a Y DNA, so that's why you're a woman. DAVIES: Henry Louis Gates speaking with Terry Gross in May of last year. "This is a series about the range the range of Blackness and its full complexity, including out-of-the-box manifestations that you never would have dreamed of.". 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. Watch the full episode at PBS.org/FindingYourRoots. in England and in the U.S. is the use of DNA. Gates Jr. explained how mitochondrial DNA, inherited from the female ancestry line, doesn't change. GROSS: So when you had your DNA done, did you have a wish for a certain area of Africa or a certain group of African people who you wanted to be your ancestors? There have been a lot of TV crossover episodes over the years, but this may be the most unique one yet: PBS' "Finding Your Roots" and host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. will make a major appearance on Fox's "The Simpsons" this Sunday. And he fought in - for the Continental Army. His mother cleaned . GROSS: Whoa. 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 youre looking for a family history book in particular, here are some extra things youll want to look for during your search: Think about what youre hoping to get from a book: Some books mainly emphasize the genealogists findings, while others juxtapose findings alongside extensive oral history and/or interviews with living family members. I'm learning about things I didn't know anything about like Scotland, and the Black Watch, and the Royal Highlanders [a Scottish regiment].". If my areas of expertise do not align with your needs, check out my guide for finding a professional genealogist. And most DNA companies in the United States will tell you that they have never tested an African-American who is 100 percent from sub-Saharan Africa. 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 . That's the way it is. And at the time, the airwaves were so segregated, they only put black films on "The Late Late Show." And when my grandparents came as immigrants, my family was able to assimilate pretty easily because we're white. A family history book typically displays the conclusions about your family history, without overly emphasizing what went into reaching those conclusions. This is FRESH AIR. I have a couple black friends - I went to Yale with Ben Carson and with Ben's wife. And she was a beautiful woman. And we knew the name of his great-great-grandmother and the name of this white man. 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. That slave would later escape, and go to become Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick. I could've won the Nobel Prize, and somebody would say congratulations. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Gates has said back then that he and the producers decided not to include the information about Affleck's slave-owning history because they focused on other stuff they found more interesting about his family history. They begin their conversation by discussing how Henry's upbringing and the . Kids don't even know what they are anymore, but everybody here does. It was really, like, the photograph of her - of your great-great-aunt Jane Gates. In a real book from a genealogist, context like that provided by Mr. Gates on the show would be written down, so that you could read the book yourself without needing an interpreter to explain things. The headline read " DEATH OF 'AUNT JANE GATES ' ": Last night at 11 o'clock "Aunt Jane Gates," colored, a . And they have a horse-drawn carriage. GATES: And my father lived to be 97 1/2 without any dementia. I love my mother, and I love my nickname. Related Links. So to me, it leaves open a question of whether or not letting Affleck lobby Gates was the problem or having him actually pressure them and get them to change the material was the problem. He introduced the notion of signifyin' to represent African and African American literary and musical history as a continuing reflection and reinterpretation of what has come before. Black people came here - not willingly, of course. said Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Encarta Africana 2000 is a captivating and engaging resource that can educate students of all ages." Within its 3,600 articles, the latest version includes new information and multimedia features that will allow students to learn even more about African culture and history. And before I started school - I started school when I was, well, 5, turning 6 - I would get dressed up, and I would go to church with my mom. GROSS: I think they're doing it through records and not through, like, secretly getting their blood samples. 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. Barack Obama understood that and, I think, certainly helped our nation to heal. What is race? Coming up, journalist Brian Palmer talks about how slavery and the Civil War are described at Confederate historic sites in the South. CORNISH: Finally Eric, help me out here. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has apologized after PBS found he violated their editorial standards. You know, we used to say tribe, but now that's not politically correct - so the Yoruba ethnic group in Western Nigeria. GATES: Right after the Beer Summit, it all went away. In the latest episode of Finding Your Roots, Cox discovers previously lost information about James McCann, his grandfather who died before he was born, and his military service for Great Britain in World War I. Also, journalist Brian Palmer talks about how slavery and the Civil War are described at Confederate historic sites in the South. This sounds really obvious, but when youre comparing genealogists, make sure the genealogist offers family history books. So overseer, slave plantation - rape, right? I think you know where I'm heading here. And I think that that's sad. CORNISH: And they said that they found the show's producers violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence. Was this an equal sexual relationship? GROSS: So you assume it was not a consensual relationship, but she managed to own her own home five years after being freed from slavery. #FindingYourRoots#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays. (Read Henry . Well talk with Gates about the process of finding . One way of comparing research reports and family history books is to imagine a car: A research report is like the cars engine. Thank you so much for accepting this award. This is . Eric Deggans, what does that mean? The Academy looks forward to presenting the award in person, when circumstances allow for a safe and celebratory occasion to honor the imagination and impact of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Update: The Academy presented the award at an in-person event in April 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GATES: We know he was Irish from my DNA. Thank you. GATES: But then they did another special test. You know, and your family was, one of them anyways, was in the Revolutionary War. Henry Louis Gates, (born Sept. 16, 1950, Keyser, W.Va., U.S.), U.S. critic and scholar. The words Certified Genealogist and its acronym, CG, are registered certification marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by authorized associates following peer-reviewed competency evaluations. GROSS: OK, for two weeks. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. And it's for my father. GATES: For which she paid cash. "So I thought that the emotional apex would be an African American, knowing their African ethnic roots.". He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Gates is the host of the TV genealogy series "Finding Your Roots." Like I said earlier, family history books can vary widely from one genealogist to the next. GATES: I go, yeah, I got a brother who's a dentist, you know? Gates co-produces and hosts the genealogy show, "Finding Your Roots." Help me understand why this matters. My mother would say, tell them about your brother who's a dentist. - Part 01 HD Watch. Season 9 of "Finding Your Roots" on PBS has seen actors Danny Trejo and Julia Roberts discover more about their family history. PBS says it's now delaying the airing of new episodes until it can improve editorial oversight. We wanted to see what more we could tell Ben Affleck about the roots of his family's interest in social justice. GROSS: It has been a great honor to speak with you. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots, Gates tells celebrities about their family history. As soon as the Civil War ended, they became common law husband and wife GATES: Which was illegal in Mississippi. 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. Family history books are most similar to the Books of Life featured on the show, so Ill be talking about them here. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. - like the Bible says? This is FRESH AIR. You get your Y DNA from your father, and that's what makes me a man. executive producer (33 episodes, 2012-2023) Deborah Clancy Porfido . 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. It's a horrible way to start, in a way. So I'm telling this story over and over of my - of rediscovering my own lost roots. I asked a PBS representative that question many times, and she would only repeat back the language that's from this statement. So you're saying I should have been an undertaker. I am descended from - on my father's side - from a white man who impregnated a black woman and, on my mother's side, from a white woman who was impregnated by a black man. My mother used to read me - the greatest book ever written to me was "The Poky Little Puppy," right? Jeff Daniels sits with "Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an episode from Season 9 on PBS. 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. And she would stand up and read their obituary, their eulogy. GROSS: Is that too personal? Henry Louis Gates. A report is a little more nitty gritty than a book, sort of like how understanding the mechanics of an engine will help you understand what makes a car run. Unfortunately Gates failed in delivering on this, and instead left the . John Lithgow and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. are DNA cousins! A family history book is like the entire car. Guests from all ethnic backgrounds are welcomed as Gates Jr. investigates the lineage of his celebrity guests. Gates was born in Keyser, West Virginia, to Henry Louis Gates Sr. (c.1913-2010) and his wife Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates (1916-1987). Genealogy for Henry Louis Gates, Sr. (1913 - 2010) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. She was quite a lady. ", Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. 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. The latest episode of Finding Your Roots airs on Tuesday January 31, and features 76-year-old Scottish actor Brian Cox. GROSS: It's mind-boggling. GROSS: So you know your medical background and if you're GATES: Yeah. And I sat down. "duet by kimberely freeman" Henry Louis Gates Jr. The way to get a Finding Your Roots-style experience yourself is to hire a professional genealogist. But on the other hand, you can't say that biology doesn't matter because it does matter. So, to summarize, you probably cant hire Henry Louis Gates Jr. himself, but you can get a similar work product from a qualified professional genealogist. Writing samples might range from blog posts to published research in peer-reviewed journals. In a piece Henry wrote for The Daily Beast in February 2021 about Black churches and their "cultural ties" to Africa, Henry dipped into his personal life. "A white man who slept with a black slave. GATES: And then there was "The Late Late Show." Now think about that. I'm Dave Davies This is FRESH AIR. GATES: Otherwise they wouldn't be in a database. He was there in exile because he had been in prison and to be offering civil war for 27 months and was given a fellowship at the University of Cambridge. When youre comparing professional genealogists, it is helpful to read their other writing. I can do it. Thank God. They could probably find it out themselves. . GATES: But everyone who's in one of those databases has given some kind of permission. Professor Gates is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard and has produced numerous books and documentaries about African-American history. Accuracy and availability may vary. It's the damnedest thing I ever heard. So what that means is that it's the percent of - if you had a perfect family tree, what percent would be from sub-Saharan Africa? If you are planning to get a family history book in the near future, now is the time to start emailing those distant cousins and rummaging around in your basement looking for pictures. And we're listening to Terry's interview with Henry Louis Gates. You said that after - you had been getting death threats and these angry emails and everything. You know, no matter how different we appear phenotypically, under the skin we're 99.99 percent the same. Greg Moore, Arizona Republic. One, dated Saturday, January 7, 1888, was from the Cumberland Evening Times. He is an American professor, historian, filmmaker, and literary critic. GROSS: There's some people who are trying to use genealogy to out people who are white supremacists and say, oh, you think you're so pure white, that that's such a big deal? And our family - my cousin, Johnny Gates (ph), still owns that house to this day. GROSS: You had family that passed for white. I'm here to ask, on behalf of our production staff, if you will be a guest in next season GATES: Of "Finding Your Roots." S7 E7 | 0:01:16. One thing they dont cover on Finding Your Roots is how much it would cost to get a similar experience in real life. Wrong username or password. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born on 16 September, 1950 in Keyser, West Virginia, United States, is an American professor. Gates Jr. says since Moore joined the show, she has "changed fundamentally what was possible in terms of doing a person's family tree.". Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? GROSS: And then your slightly more contemporary ancestors not having any rights in the country, you know, or very few rights - not being able to vote, having to live in segregation. Jeff Daniels sits with "Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an episode from Season 9 on PBS. Related topic Henry Louis Gates Jr. Related topic. DAVIES: Henry Louis Gates spoke with Terry Gross before a live audience in Philadelphia last May. As of 2014, he has written seventeen books and created thirteen . And consequently, you are now a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. 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