BookTV finally posted Skip Gates' Africana segment.

It's such a great story, how WEB Dubois imagined an encyclopedia of black history and experience and how it finally was made a reality -- it took Gates twenty-five years. Lots of inside baseball on how a project like this is put together, on Gates' and on DuBois.

To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Auburn Cemetery and its African American history, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates talks about Africa and the African Diaspora. During the discussion, he describes the creation of the one-volume edition of the 5-volume "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience," a guide to African American cultural, religious and political movements. Henry Louis Gates also reflects on the influences of W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks and Wole Soyinka on his life.

Henry Louis Gates is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and Humanities Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of "Colored People, " coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of "Encarta Africana," and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He has received many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.


The link to watch is in the upper right:

http://www.booktv.org/Program/7571/Africana+The+Encyclopedia+of+the+African+and+African+American+Experience.aspx

Enjoy!

booktv...that takes me back.

On the other hand it could have been Zorro.

Mostly that I'm hardly ever here to partake.

I'd hurry up and get a job.

lol

:loveya:

:D and here I thought there was at least one responsible adult here.

:loveya:

that I've seen.

Here are some others:

Lincoln on Race and Slavery:
http://www.booktv.org/Watch/10221/Lincoln+on+Race+and+Slavery.aspx

African American National Biography:
http://www.booktv.org/Program/9095/African+American+National+Biography.aspx

With Charlie Rose, 2007
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/37

With Charlie Rose, 2006
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/571

With Charlie Rose, 2004
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/1612

With Charlie Rose, 2002
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/2595

he has a real sharp sense of humor

lol

Glad you liked it! :hi:

Oooo...it drives me nuts when there's only 4 recs! :crazy:

Gates was on a roll. He said DuBois's wife in intimate moments called him by his given name, doctor. And so on. And the stories about trying to get money together are just as funny, especially when he talks about his cousin Bill.

lol

:)

The library here doesn't load any music, video, nuthin, :(

But I knew that if you posted it, it would be a worthwhile view.

How is it a man with a wit like that would resort to the tired old "your mama" routine. It's hard to believe.