Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor that made headlines after he was arrested by Cambridge police, is donating the handcuffs used to detain him to the Smithsonian. Gates tells the New York Times that he donated the handcuffs to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture after reconciling with Sgt. James […]
The arrest of a well-known Harvard African-American studies professor Henry Gates sent shock waves through the nation, when he was jailed on charges of disorderly conduct for busting through a jammed door of his home. Gates was later released and all charges were dropped. It’s been almost two weeks since the incident made headlines, often […]
