{"id":17144,"date":"2013-10-17T02:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17144"},"modified":"2013-10-17T02:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:41:42","slug":"17144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17144","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Percenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10 Percenter<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2011-10-13<\/p>\n

Robert S. Boyton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Louis Gates Jr.<\/a> is having lunch at New York\u2019s Union Square Cafe, hoping Danny Meyer\u2019s chicken soup will soothe his allergies. He has just returned from Newark<\/a>, where he interviewed Mayor Cory Booker<\/a> for his new PBS series, \u201cFinding Your Roots.\u201d After lunch he\u2019s catching a flight to Martha\u2019s Vineyard<\/a> for Bill Clinton\u2019s<\/a> birthday party. Author of 14 books, editor in chief of the online publication The Root<\/em>, documentary producer and presenter, Gates, 61, is a one-man multimedia industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no plans to slow down,\u201d he says cheerfully.<\/p>\n

A clear line runs through Gates\u2019s myriad projects. \u201cI want to get into the educational DNA<\/a> of American culture,\u201d he says. \u201cI want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.\u201d Gates\u2019s love of technology has been a boon in this regard. He is always thinking about new ways to circulate his ideas. \u201cThe Norton Anthology of African-American Literature\u201d (1996) included a CD of oral literature with recordings of poets like Langston Hughes<\/a> reading their work. He followed up \u201cAfricana: The Encyclopedia of the African American Experience\u201d (1999) with Microsoft\u2019s Encarta Africana on CD-ROM. The success of The Huffington Post<\/em> inspired him to start The Root<\/em>, The Washington Post\u2019s<\/em> online African-American publication. \u201cI\u2019m a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Gates is a member of the Personal Genome Project<\/a> at Harvard Medical School, and he and his late father (who died at age 97 on Christmas Eve, 2010) were the first African-Americans to have their entire genomes sequenced. The tests showed that Gates Jr. has 50 percent European ancestry and descends from John Redman<\/a>, a free African-American who fought in the Revolutionary War<\/a>. In 2006, Gates was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. \u201cWhen I do a black person\u2019s DNA, there are never any people who are 100 percent black, no matter how dark they are<\/strong>,\u201d he says…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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