The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

On October 15, 2013, the Brookings Institution hosted a viewing of select clips from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a six-hour series written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The series examines the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — shaping their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. The series moves through five centuries of some of history’s most poignant events, beginning with the origins of slavery in Africa and concluding in present day with America being led by a black president, yet deeply divided by race.

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