Discuss Harvard Scholar's Arrest
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Charged With Disorderly Conduct
POSTED: 1:08 pm EDT July 20, 2009
UPDATED: 6:15 am EDT July 29, 2009
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's pre-eminent black scholars and the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, accused the Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested after forcing open the front door of his home last week.
