Where was a Prominent Black Scholar Arrested After Racism Charge?
Black Harvard scholar arrested at his home Black Harvard scholar arrested BOSTON — Police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives there — Henry Louis Gates Jr., a prominent black scholar. Gates, 58, had forced his way through the front door because it was jammed, his lawyer said. Colleagues call the arrest Thursday a case of racial profiling. Cambridge police say they responded after a woman reported seeing “two black males with backpacks on the porch,” with one “wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry.” By the time police arrived, Gates was already inside. Police say he refused to come outside to speak with an officer, who told him he was investigating a report of a break-in. “Why, because I’m a black man in America?” Gates said, according to a police report. Gates — director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research — initially ref
Prominent Black Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Arrested After Racism Charge Cops Say Gates Was ‘Disorderly’; He Says ‘This Is What Happens to Black Men in America’ By MICHELE McPHEE, DAN HARRIS and DEAN SCHABNER July 20, 2009 Prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after an incident with police responding to a call about someone apparently trying to break into his Cambridge, Mass., home. Top Black Scholar Arrested in Mass., Claims Racism Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian and director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and… Expand Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian and director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, seen here in January 2008, has accused the Cambridge police of racism after being arrested trying to get into his own locked home near Harvard University. Collapse (Josh Reynolds/AP Photo) Gates, who according to his lawyer, had been try
Black Harvard scholar arrested at his home Black Harvard scholar arrested BOSTON — Police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives there — Henry Louis Gates Jr., a prominent black scholar. Gates, 58, had forced his way through the front door because it was jammed, his lawyer said. Colleagues call the arrest Thursday a case of racial profiling. Cambridge police say they responded after a woman reported seeing “two black males with backpacks on the porch,” with one “wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry.” By the time police arrived, Gates was already inside. Police say he refused to come outside to speak with an officer, who told him he was investigating a report of a break-in. “Why, because I’m a black man in America?” Gates said, according to a police report. Gates — director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research — initially ref
