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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. - Wikipedi...

Tiya Miles is a historian who writes about American history and the lives of Black women. Her book, All That She Carried, won the National Book Award for its detailed account of slavery through a mother's few possessions. She makes history accessible and immediate.