The Microsoft cofounder talked about his "pretty ideal" childhood, with one shocking loss, at a Harvard Book Store event on Monday evening.

So proposes the legendary Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his searching new book, “The Black Box: Writing the Race ...

44,097 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?44,097 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others? After Stephen A ...

Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey are the two latest celebrities to discover that their family tree is bigger than they knew.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses his "Great Migrations" docuseries at Michigan Central Station. The PBS docuseries “Great Migrations: People on the Move” examines the historic migration of ...

Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, historian, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of married actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Professor Gates ...