“I now know what Frederick Douglass felt like in 1876 when Reconstruction came to an end,” says Henry Louis Gates Jr., referring to the recent election and the end of the Obama presidency. He ...

Given President Barack Obama’s reluctance to dwell on the issue of race in America, it was a surprise to hear the president’s forceful comments on last week’s controversial arrest of Henry Louis Gates ...

The media feeding frenzy involving Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Barack Obama is indeed troubling. In what should have been an inconsequential, ...

In a long and surprisingly frank interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates talked about his... Gates: Obama Made Solid Decisions, But Was Swayed By ...