Grambling State University News January 2012 Grambling State University’s LYCEUM SERIES Presents Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Thursday February 9, 2012 3:00 p.m. T. H. Harris Auditorium Grambling State University Grambling, Louisiana Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author most recently of Black in Latin America (New York University Press, 2011) and Faces of America (New York University Press, 2010), which expand on his critically acclaimed PBS documentaries. Professor Gates is Editor-in-Chief of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine focusing on issues of interest to the African American community and written from an African American perspective. Professor Gates has received 51 honorary degrees, as well as a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” In addition, Professor Gates was named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997, and one of Ebony magazine’s “100 Most Influential Black Americans” in 2005, and he was selected for Ebony’s “Power 150″ list for 2009 and its “Power 100″ list for 2010. He received a National Humanities Medal in 1998, and in 1999 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2006, he was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution after tracing his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who fought in the Revolutionary War. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.