10/15/9 - Time: 7:00 PM
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Hardman Lecture: Charlayne Hunter-Gault
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT
AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an
award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in the industry. She is the
author of In My Place, a memoir of the civil rights movement, fashioned
around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of
Georgia and her latest book, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African
Renaissance.
As a global journalist, Hunter-Gault has returned to NPR as a Special
Correspondent after spending six years as CNN's Johannesburg Bureau Chief and
Correspondent. Before that, she worked as NPR's chief correspondent in Africa.
Hunter-Gault had joined NPR in 1997 after 20 years with PBS, where she worked
as a national correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She began
her journalism career as a reporter for The New Yorker, before working
as a local news anchor for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and as the Harlem bureau chief
for The New York Times.
Her numerous honors include two Emmy
awards and two Peabody awards-one for her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour
series about South African life during apartheid and the other for general
coverage of Africa in 1998. Hunter-Gault also was the recipient of the 1986
Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black
Journalists, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the American Women in Radio and
Television award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award
and a 2004 National Association of Black Journalists Award for her CNN series
on Zimbabwe. She has also received awards from Amnesty International for her
Human Rights reporting, especially her PBS Series, Rights and Wrongs, a
human rights television magazine. In August, 2005, she was inducted in the
National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. She is a sought after
public speaker, holds more than two dozen honorary degrees, is on the board of
The Committee to Protect Journalists and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. For more information please visit www.apbspeakers.com.
Admission: free
Location: MCLA Church Street Center (wheelchair accessible)
Contact Information: Ashley Berridge, (413) 662-5185, Ashley.Berridge@mcla.edu
