Keynote Announced for History Makers 2009 Summit

TORONTO, November 10:
Harvard scholar and TV producer/presenter Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will
deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming History Makers
International Summit, which will take place in New York City from January 29 to
31 at the Marriott Downtown.

His address, titled "Lincoln,
Obama, Race and the Presidency," will look at the political changes in the
U.S. in a historical context. Gates is currently completing a book and PBS
special to mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. He is the
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

"I can think of no
one better than Dr. Gates to give an audience full of broadcasters and
producers from around the world a unique perspective of the dramatic changes
that have recently occurred in America," said Bill Nemtin, the executive
producer of History Makers 2009.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski