Harvard Professor Arrested; Officer Accused of Bias

The arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. culminated in an invitation from President Barack Obama to the professor and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley to have a beer at the White House to discuss the incident.

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Harvard Professor Arrested; Officer Accused of Bias

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard’s most prominent scholar of African-American history, accused police of racism after he was arrested at his home by an officer investigating a report of a robbery. Now President Obama and others are weighing in.

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