Executive Committee

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  Professor Emmaneul K. Akyeampong
  Harvard College Professor and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
  Harvard University

• 
  Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
  W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research (Director)
  Harvard University

• 
  Evenlyn Brooks Higginbotham
  Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies (Chair)
  Harvard University

• 
  William Julius Wilson
  Lewis F. and Linda L.Geyser University Professor
  Harvard University