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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nickname: Skip

Muckety metrics:

Connections: Henry Louis Gates Jr. has direct or once-removed relationships with 1,533 people, organizations or other entities in our database of the most influential people in America. Under a scoring system that gives more weight to direct links, this score is higher than 99% of all entries.

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Muckety connection score: 99

Influence: Gates has a Muckety influence index of 99 out of 100. This is a measure of power and reach compared with others in the U.S. leadership elite.

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Muckety influence score: 99

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Gender: Male

Address: Lives and/or works in Cambridge, MA

Areas of interest:

nonprofits

entertainment & sports

education

business

media

Personal social network: Much of Gates's Muckety comes from nonprofit connections.

Muckety news stories featuring Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Even Skip Gates, even in Cambridge, even in 2009

At the least, some say, the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. was racial profiling.

July 22, 2009

The Obamas would (almost) blend in among Oak Bluffs' black elite

If Barack Obama and his family decide to summer in Oak Bluffs, as the Boston Globe reports they are considering, they would enjoy not just pristine beaches, but a social scene that includes some of the nation's most successful black artists, thinkers and entrepreneurs.

April 13, 2009

Henry Louis Gates heads new Washington Post site

Henry Louis Gates Jr. may never sleep.

January 29, 2008

Other current Henry Louis Gates Jr. relationships:

African American Lives - host

American Heritage Dictionary - usage panel member

Apollo Theater Foundation - director

Aspen Institute - trustee

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - director

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - advisory board member

Harvard University - professor

High Quality Speakers Bureau - speaker

Jazz at Lincoln Center - director

Lincoln Center Theater - director

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund - director

New-York Historical Society - trustee

New York Public Library - trustee

Nieman Foundation for Journalism - advisory board member

Oak Bluffs (MA) - homeowner

ProPublica - director

Revson Foundation - director emeritus

Studio Museum in Harlem - trustee

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature - general editor

The Root - editor-in-chief & founder

W.E.B. DuBois Institute - director

Whitney Museum of American Art - trustee

Henry Louis Gates Jr. past relationships:

Brookings Institution - honorary trustee

Cornell University - professor

Duke University - professor

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - fellow

National Constitution Center - trustee

Wole Soyinka - student

Yale University - professor

Five degrees of Kevin:

We can connect Henry Louis Gates Jr. with Kevin Bacon in five steps:
Henry Louis Gates Jr. → New York Public Library →
  estate of Jeffry M. Picower → Jeffry M. Picower →
    Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities →

Many people have multiple paths to Kevin. If you know of a shorter one, send us a note.

Indirect links:

Henry Louis Gates Jr. has multiple indirect connections to the following people:

Extended reach:

Among the most influential people in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s web of second-degree relationships:

Andrew H. Tisch

Ann M. Fudge

Donald F. McHenry

TIP: You can search for once-removed connections between two people by entering both their names, separated by AND.

Books:

· The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism

· Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self

· Colored People: A Memoir

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PBS

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ProPublica

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. campaign contributions:

Listed below are federal donations of $3,000+ reported to the FEC.

Obama for America - $4,600 on 8/31/2007

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