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A conversation with Skip Gates - Martha's Vineyard Magazine

Aug 4, 2008

http://www.mvmagazine.com/article.php?17721

Henry Louis Gates Jr., known as “Skip,” is a professor at Harvard University, where he is also the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. A prolific writer, editor, and film producer, he has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” a National Humanities Medal, and nearly fifty honorary degrees from institutes for higher education. A seasonal resident of the Vineyard for the past twenty-seven years, he spoke with Martha’s Vineyard Magazine writer Laura Roosevelt by phone from off-Island in June.

Tavis Smiley . Archives . Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | PBS

May 20, 2008

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200...

Esquire named Fareed Zakaria "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st century." An expert on global political trends, he's the editor of Newsweek International, for which he also writes a regular column, and recently joined CNN to host a weekly show. He was previously an ABC News analyst and managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the leading journal of international politics and economics. Zakaria is a native of India and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard. His books include the newly released The Post-American World.

Tavis Smiley . Archives . Thursday, April 10, 2008 | PBS

Apr 10, 2008

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Harvard University's Noah Feldman discusses the impact of the rise of the Islamic state on U.S. foreign policy. Radio talk show host Joe Madison explains how the Darfur crisis began in Sudan and describes what it's like to witness the ongoing civil war.

Tavis Smiley . Archives . Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | PBS

Mar 19, 2008

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200...

March 19, 2008 Harvard's Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editor of the African American National Biography, weighs in on Sen. Obama's recent speech and the separate discourses that take place on race in America.