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A man of this surname claims he was mentored by Shoji Yamaguchi, a fictional Japanese potter who moved to Mississippi; that man of this surname created the Rebuild Foundation and turned an old building into the Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side. The multimedia artist of Black Chapel, whose first name is Theaster (“thee-ASS-ter”), has this surname. A scholar of this surname, who informed actress Amanda Seyfried about her great-grandfather’s brutal murder, titled a 1989 book for a figure that singer Oscar Brown Jr. told to “stay up in your tree.” A president’s claim that policeman James Crowley “acted stupidly” at the home of that man of this surname led to a 2009 “beer summit” at the White House. For 10 points, the host of PBS’s Finding Your Roots and author of The Signifying Monkey is an African-American Harvard professor with what surname? ■END■
ANSWER: Gates [accept Theaster Gates; accept Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.]
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