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April 1998 Issue

Feature

As this 1998 Boston magazine story shows, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is no stranger to racial controversy.

Wearing suspenders and dress slacks, looking more like a banker than a street-savvy pastor, Reverend Eugene F. Rivers 3rd glances up frequently at a mirror […]

From the archives: As this 1998 Boston magazine story shows, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is no stranger to racial controversy.

As chief interpreter of the black experience for white America, Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr. may be the most influential black man in the United […]