#  AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates in reading of "Remix: For My People" 

 





January 18, 2021

 

 

 On Monday, January 18, 2021, *PBS American Portrait*, the national storytelling documentary series, released a video of a reading of "Remix: For My People," a crowd-sourced poem edited by Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Poet Laureate of the U.S.

 "Remix: For My People," a response to Margaret Walker Alexander’s poem, "For My People," is a poem written from a compilation of a wide range of diverse American voices. In the video, segments of the poem are read by a variety of people including the general public, members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and some notable *PBS* stars including **[AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.](/people/henry-louis-gates-jr)**

 For more information and to view the poem's text visit the American Academy of Arts & Sciences' [website](https://www.amacad.org/remix-for-my-people-text).



 



 

 

 



 

 

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