The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press. Editors are Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The object of the project is to publish and maintain a database of African Americans similar in scope to the American National Biography. The Managing Editor is Dr. John K. Bollard. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...

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