Henry Gates/Definition

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American at Harvard University; Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center; board of directors, Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford;  involved in 1 July 2009 arrest with comment by his friend, Barack Obama