1. Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault was born on February 27,1942 and is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service.
14 Facts About Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault Hunter was born in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Col.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault became interested in journalism at the age of 12 after reading the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault's parents divorced after spending the year in Alaska, and Hunter moved to Atlanta with her mother, two brothers, and maternal grandmother.
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In 1968, Charlayne Hunter-Gault joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban black community.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in June 1997.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, as National Public Radio's chief correspondent in Africa.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault then joined CNN as its Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent in 1999.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault exited this role in 2005, although she still regularly appeared on the network and others, as an Africa specialist.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, a Candace Award for Journalism from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1988, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, the Women in Radio and Television Award and two awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors since 2009 and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Carter Center.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is author of In My Place, a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault gave up going to movies because he knew I couldn't get a seat in the segregated theaters.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault gave up going to the Varsity because he knew they would not serve me.