Professor, Author and TV Host Henry Louis Gates: ‘I Work Hard ... and Sleep Like a Baby’
But Henry Louis Gates Jr. took a slightly different path. He did it by being charming. A Conversation With Henry Louis Gates Jr. And at 73, hes creating more popular work than ever. A month later, PBS is airingGospel, Gates four-hour documentary on that quintessentially American worship music. The phone company was a small office with six operators. They loved my father. We never had a phone bill. And because he had two jobs, we were the most prosperous Black family in Piedmont, West Virginia....