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Celebrated artist and activist John Legend joined renowned Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sept. 8, 2025, on Loyola Marymount University’s Drollinger Family Stage for a riveting, wide-ranging dialogue in the latest chapter of…
The PBS Series “Finding Your Roots” is celebrating its 10th season. Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., each episode takes a deep dive into two or three celebrities’ genealogical and family histories. On Jan….
At LMU’s Global Conversations Series, Julia Lee, BCLA associate professor of English, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher university professor, came together to discuss the expansiveness of ancestry. As professors of color…
Educator, author, philosopher, and activist Angela Davis opened up to an overflow crowd at Loyola Marymount University on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2023, in a conversation that enlightened and entertained the audience, weaving her life’s…
Loyola Marymount University’s Mayer Theater was filled with laughs, cheers, and newfound inspiration on Jan. 18. 2023, when Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and acclaimed screenwriter and…
Philosopher, author, and raconteur Cornel West brought his message of “fire in the soul, joy in the heart” to Loyola Marymount University in the second installment of the Global Conversation series with Henry Louis…
In the spring of 2008, the bones of an ancient market gathered, one upon each unsharpened corner of Sunken Garden, Sacred Heart Chapel resplendent at their center. Slowly, they became visible; the stalls were marked and colorful; and merchants and traders were everywhere – selling spices, food, drinks.
