2024 Press Distinguished Lecture
Dive deep into the past and build connections to the present during this very special evening with scholar and Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Based on his groundbreaking PBS series of the same name, Professor Gates will share insights from his influential series about genealogy, genetics and history’s impact on our lives today.
Centre Tickets
Centre college students, faculty and staff receive free tickets on a first-come, first-served basis, while they last.
Students: Pick up your free ticket voucher at the Norton Center Box Office.
Faculty and Staff: Faculty and staff receive two free tickets. Reserve now
About the Speaker
Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and institution builder, Professor Gates’s most recent books are Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow and The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. He has also produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive produced, each received Emmy nominations.
In January 2024, Finding Your Roots, Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, returned for its tenth season on PBS. His next history series for PBS, Gospel, premieres in February 2024.
Endowed by philanthropist Lucille Caudill Little, the Press Distinguished Lecture Series brings notable speakers who have improved our nation's civic and cultural life to Centre College. The series was named in honor of late Kentucky civic leaders O. Leonard Press, founding director of Kentucky Educational Television, and Lillian Press, founding director of the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program.
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