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Henry Louis Gates Jr stories: 43 news summaries

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SOCIAL LUBRICANT DEPT.

 Prof. Gates, Cop Crowley 
 Have Another Round 

Pair at center of racial incident spotted at Cambridge bar

Oct 29, 09 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The black college professor and the white cop at the center of a racial firestorm this summer, and who later famously had beers on the White House, were spotted last night having a round at a bar in Cambridge, Mass. Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley chatted over suds... More »

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beer • Harvard • racial tension • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley • beer summit

OPINION

 With Race in Play, 
 Obama's White 
 Support Softens 

Poll numbers plummeted amid Sotomayor, Gates controversies

Sep 14, 09 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s downward opinion-poll trajectory among whites seems to be linked to the “blackening” of his image, writes Joan Walsh in Salon. It accelerated during two racially charged moments this summer: Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, marked with debate over her “wise Latina” comment,... More »

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race • politics • Joan Walsh • poll • racism • black • US Supreme Court • approval ratings • white voters • opinion polls • Obama administration • President Obama • Sonia Sotomayor • Henry Louis Gates Jr

OPINION

'Post-Racial' Proclamations Fizzle Fast

Gates incident, rise of birthers indicate issue's persistence

Aug 7, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s election was supposed to be a healing moment, proof that we’re in a post-racial America. “Didn’t last very long,” writes Roger Simon of Politico. Today America seems as racially divided as ever. Exhibit A: the birthers, who say Obama’s “an alien... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • post-racial • Henry Louis Gates Jr • birther

(Newser) - Another black member of Harvard's faculty has accused the Cambridge Police Department of racism, the Boston Globe reports. S. Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor, was arrested outside his home in 2006 on assault and battery charges. “I was polite, and yet police lied and said I was... More »

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Harvard Medical School • African Americans • racism • professor • police department • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • S. Allen Counter

(Newser) - The Boston police officer suspended for referring to Henry Louis Gates as a “banana-eating jungle monkey” is suing the city and the department for violating his civil rights, the Globe reports. The BPD, police commissioner, and mayor are “conspiring to intentionally inflict emotional distress” and interfering with Justin... More »

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police • racism • mayor • suspension • civil lawsuits • racial slurs • Thomas Menino • Boston Police Department • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Justin Barrett

Gates: I Can 
Joke About 
Arrest Now 

Harvard prof kidded Cambridge cop
at White House

Aug 2, 09 5:24 PM CDT
(AP) - A black Harvard scholar said today he has been able to joke about his arrest by a white police officer that led to a national debate on race, despite receiving death threats and bomb threats. In his first public appearance since meeting with Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley at the... More »

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racism • arrest • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

OPINION

Beck, Dobbs Fear the Rise of Minorities: Rich

White elites too often succumb to 'Village People populism'

Aug 2, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A nation bored by dreary, knotty debates about health care found relief in another National Conversation on Race. “This one,” as Frank Rich writes in the New York Times of last week’s ballyhooed Beer Summit, “ended with a burp,” but the hangover could last well... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Frank Rich • Glenn Beck • Lou Dobbs • Sonia Sotomayor • Henry Louis Gates Jr • birther • James Crowley

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates and Barack Obama have been “very publicly slapped down for speaking up and speaking out about police misbehavior,” but African-Americans “need to roar out their anger at such treatment,” Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times. Gates, not the officer who arrested... More »

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Barack Obama • racial profiling • police brutality • African-Americans • blacks • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates

Gates Sends Flowers
to 911 Caller

Bouquet, note an 'expression of gratitude' to neighbor

Aug 1, 09 5:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Cambridge woman whose 911 call sparked a national uproar over racial profiling received flowers and a note from her neighbor, Henry Louis Gates, yesterday, the Boston Herald reports. It was "an expression of gratitude," her lawyer says. Lucia Whalen, who never mentioned race when she called... More »

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911 call • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • Lucia Whalen

OPINION

Lighten Up on Presidential Gaffes

Media blowing up slips is harming political discourse: Kinsley

Jul 31, 09 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saying the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" wasn't Barack Obama's first or even worst gaffe; as president-elect he mused about Nancy Reagan séances, and he still hasn't lived down his awful joke on Jay Leno. But gaffes are okay, writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post—we want a... More »

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Barack Obama • politics • gaffe • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

OPINION

 Gates: 'Thank 
 God' for Cops 


But don't forget about racial profiling

Jul 31, 09 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The beer meeting at the White House has come and gone, but Henry Louis Gates offers a postscript: "I thank God that I live in a country in which police officers put their lives at risk to protect us every day," he writes in the Root, where he... More »

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Barack Obama • race • police • race relations • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Turns out the president was right: the beer summit was pretty boring. In fact, it wasn't even the first time Skip Gates and Officer Crowley had gotten together after the arrest. "Even before we sat down for the beer, I learned that the two gentlemen spent some time together... More »

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police • race relations • Cambridge • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - It's happy hour at the White House. President Obama, Joe Biden, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and James Crowley are clinking beer glasses in the White House Rose Garden, but alas, the media isn't invited to listen in. Earlier, the president sought to tamp down expectations, noting that he's "fascinated... More »

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police • White House • beer • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

Beck Pushes 'Racist' Obama Charge Further

President believes whites are 'typically unfair,' says shock jock

Jul 30, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck refused to back away from his claim that President Obama is a "racist" on his radio show yesterday, telling detractors that "you are never going to shut me up." Beck mounted an angry defense of his comments on Fox News that the president has "... More »

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Barack Obama • talk radio • racism • talk show • Glenn Beck • Henry Louis Gates Jr

(Newser) - President Obama's next round of peacemaking beers at the White House might have to include US brewery owners, reports the Wall Street Journal. The cooling off confab today will be providing busted Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates and cop James Crowley's favorite brews Red Stripe and Blue Moon, and some... More »

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White House • beer • Budweiser • brewery • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

Boston Cop Suspended
After Racial Slur on Gates

Calls him 'jungle monkey' in email

Jul 29, 09 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates arrest continues: A Boston cop has been suspended for referring to Gates as a "jungle monkey" in an email, the Globe reports. Officer Justin Barrett, 36, faces a disciplinary hearing next week and could be fired. He used the phrase while describing... More »

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Boston • race relations • Cambridge • racial slurs • Boston Police Department • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

Caller in Gates Arrest Didn't Mention Race

Tapes show I'm not a racist, says woman
who alerted police

Jul 29, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Massachusetts woman who called 911 on Henry Louis Gates and his chauffeur as they wrestled with the Harvard professor’s front door said today she never mentioned race to Sgt. James Crowley, the officer who arrested Gates. Lucia Whalen’s statement contradicts the police report filed by Crowley, which... More »

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African Americans • police • 911 call • arrest • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

Gates, Crowley Share Irish Ancestor

Better make that
White House beer
a Guinness

Jul 29, 09 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The beer James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates have with the president should be a Guinness if genetics are anything to go by, Irish Central reports. The Harvard professor and the Cambridge cop—along with about 3 million other people—are distant cousins with shared Irish heritage, both descended from... More »

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Ireland • Irish • Irish Americans • ancestry • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

 Powell: Gates, 
 Cops Both at Fault 

Both sides overreacted; people should 'cooperate' with police

Jul 29, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Speaking to Larry King about Henry Louis Gates’ arrest, Colin Powell said he’d faced racial profiling “many times,” and suggested both the professor and the police were at fault in the incident, the Huffington Post reports. Gates “should have reflected on whether or not this was... More »

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police • Larry King • arrest • Colin Powell • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

 Beck: Obama Is a 'Racist' 


Jul 28, 09 3:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck today called President Obama “a racist,” Politico reports. The Fox News commentator accused the president of having a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” during a discussion of the Skip Gates scandal on a Fox show. When his interlocutor pointed out that... More »

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racism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • racist • Obama administration • cable news • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr

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