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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on “America Behind the Color Line”

DN ArchivesJuly 22, 2009
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    President Obama said Cambridge police acted “stupidly” in the arrest of leading African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in his own home last week. Obama said the incident is a reminder that racism “still haunts us.” Check out our extended interview with Gates in 2004 on “America Behind the Color Line.”

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