WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent flowers to express his gratitude to the woman whose 911 call led to his arrest in Cambridge, Mass., the woman's attorney said.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 27 (UPI) -- A recording of a 911 call that led to the arrest of a prominent black scholar contradicts a Cambridge, Mass., police report that the caller saw two black males.
WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he would have a beer at the White House with President Obama and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Friday clarified his comments on the arrest of a black professor, saying he should have been more careful in choosing his words.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 24 (UPI) -- Recordings made during the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Cambridge, Mass., may be made public after being reviewed, police say.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23 (UPI) -- The Cambridge, Mass., police officer accused of racism in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. was credited in 1993 with trying to save a black basketball star.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 21 (UPI) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. demanded an apology Tuesday from police who arrested the African-American scholar as he tried to get into his Cambridge, Mass., home.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20 (UPI) -- A prominent black Harvard professor is facing disorderly conduct charges after his arrest while trying to get into his own home in Cambridge, Mass., police say.
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- African-American literature scholar, Nellie Y. McKay, who co-edited the "Norton Anthology of African American Literature," has died in Madison, Wis. McKay was chairwoman of the Afro-American studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and s
LOS ANGELES, July 19 (UPI) -- PBS, the U.S. public television network, has announced the production of a four-hour documentary called "African-American Lives."