Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is one of a number of young black critics who in recent years have set themselves the tasks of redrawing the lines of Afro-American literary history and of redefining the nature of literary history itself. To this ambitious...

"For all their successes, too many scholars continue to view black studies programs, and the people who work in them, with disdain," wrote Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black studies programs across the country celebrated their 20th anniversary. "Too little effort is made to...

National scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is trying to open the cyberworld to minorities and the disenfranchised. Gates has been around the country on speaking tours touting a multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent that he produced with Microsoft's Bill...

First off let me say this. I don't play video games, nevertheless, my thumb is cock diesel. I'm so serious about this. I have thumb muscles from channel surfing. Anyway, my first stop? ESPN. Shaq and the Kobe wannabes against Lebron. I promise, it sounds...

The Washington Post Co. launched a new online magazine Monday aimed at a black audience, featuring commentary from leading black writers, along with information on genealogy.Called "The Root," the Web site is the brain child of Post Co. Chairman Donald Graham and Harvard University professor...