Kevin Burke

Historian and journalist Kevin Burke is the director of research at the Hutchins Center for African &African American Research at Harvard University, producer for PBS television series Finding Your Roots, The Black Church, and Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, and senior historical advisor for Emmy-nomated PBS docuseries Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise and Africa's Great Civilizations. With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Burke is the co-author of And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK and co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, Twelve Years a Slave.