Henry Louis Gates Jr. reads from Colored People: A Memoir

Sanders Theatre

Before he was catapulted into the national media spotlight, Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a Harvard professor, a literary critic, and one of the country's most decorated public intellectuals. So though we all now know that he enjoys Red Stripe beer, perhaps more important is that he's spent a lifetime studying, arguing, and writing about race in America. Tonight, Cambridge Reads book club will be hosting Gates as he reads from his 1994 memoir, Colored People.

Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge | 7:15 pm | free [tickets required] | 617.496.2222

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