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In this episode, Eric sits down with civil rights activist and award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. They discuss her childhood - from being born  in South Carolina during segregation, moving frequently as her father was an army chaplain but spending most of her time in Atlanta. Her early education and the values that were instilled in her at a young age that lent to inspiring her to have high aspirations, self-belief and providing “armor” to shield her throughout her life… and how she gravitated to and was inspired to become a journalist. They discuss the Brown v. Board of Education landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, how Hunter, along with Hamilton Holmes were the two students selected by a committee to integrate white universities in Atlanta… A successful legal challenge that culminated in her admission to the University of Georgia in January 1961—making her one of the first two Black students to integrate the institution. Her illustrious career in journalism, from beginning at the New Yorker magazine, to joining The New York Times  as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban black community, becoming a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN and the Public Broadcasting…  She reflects on covering Apartheid in South Africa and interviewing nelson Nelson Mandela! To eventually authoring five books —  her most recent one being “My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives”. Her passion for writing about Black Lives and History in a way that shows the full, honest picture and her mission of creating a coalition across generations, in order to preserve and honor the path that was paved by her ancestors… and continue to work together, to strive toward a more perfect union in the United States of America…! Guest Bio: Award-winning journalist, author, and school desegregation pioneer Charlayne Hunter-Gault was born on February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina. In 1961, Hunter became the first African American woman to enroll in the University of Georgia; she was also among the first African American women to graduate from the university, earning a degree in journalism in 1963.After completing college, Hunter moved to New York City, where she worked for The New Yorker magazine in an administrative job and contributed pieces to the “Talk of the Town” section. Hunter-Gault gained a national audience after she joined the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) news program MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978. When the program grew into the 60-minute MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1983, she became its national correspondent and reported on topics that included racism, Vietnam veterans, life under apartheid, drug abuse, and human rights issues. In 1997 Hunter-Gault left PBS to become the Africa bureau chief for National Public Radio (NPR), and in 1999 she was named Johannesburg bureau chief for the Cable News Network (CNN), a post she held until 2005. She published a memoir, In My Place (1992), and New News Out of Africa (2006), a book documenting positive developments in Africa. In 2005 Hunter-Gault was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame.Hunter-Gault lives in Florida and on Martha's Vineyard.For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com#ERICSPERSPECTIVE #AFRICANAMERICAN #ART Connect with us ONLINE:  Visit Eric's Perspective website: https://bit.ly/2ZQ41x1 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3jq5fXP Instagram: https://bit.ly/39jFZxG X: https://bit.ly/2OM TikTok: https://bit.ly/4cv8zfg

Kelsey Coffey gets up at 2:30 a.m. every day to deliver the morning news as a broadcast reporter at WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2020 into uncertainty from the pandemic and protests for racial justice across the country. But today, she knows what drives her to wake up early each morning — connecting with her audience and serving them through her reporting. In this episode, Kelsey talks about the projects she's worked on with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a phenomenal journalist and one of two students who desegregated UGA in 1961, and about why it's important to know your “why.” Guest: Kelsey Coffey, reporter at WRAL. Host: Jacqueline GaNun.

The Breakdown is live w/ guests Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Douglas Brinkley Today on The Breakdown, host Tara Setmayer talks with journalist and author Charlayne Hunter-Gault about civil rights in Georgia and the election of Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate. Also joining the show is Professor of history Douglad Brinkley to discuss how the first day of the Biden-Harris administration fits into history and what we can expect going forward. Don't miss a moment – watch now, share on social media, and follow The Lincoln Project below. Join the fight at LincolnProject.us! MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODECharlayne Hunter-Gault's book “To the Mountaintop” – https://amzn.to/3sd2r5t Professor Douglas Brinkley's books “American Moonshot” – https://amzn.to/3sjkSpk and “Cronkite” – https://amzn.to/3rmQn2k FOLLOW Charlayne Hunter-Gault TWITTER: @CharlayneHG FOLLOW Douglas Brinkley TWITTER: @ProfDBrinkleyFOLLOW LINCOLN PROJECTTWITTER: https://bit.ly/3zwZFva INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/31yyrHR FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/3zCBHhT PODCAST: https://apple.co/3G7zr4L

The civil rights activist, award-winning journalist, and former NPR and CNN foreign correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about her book “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives”; why understanding history is like a form of armor in a world full of misinformation; and the transformational, life-altering notion of viewing herself as a “queen” from a young age.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a trailblazing journalist. The first Black reporter for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, she's spent more than a half-century reporting on the lives of Black Americans. Her newest book, My People, is a collection of pieces written throughout her career that provide a nuanced look at Black communities across the U.S. In this episode, she speaks to NPR's Michel Martin about how our country's understanding of race has changed since she first began working as a journalist, but how some things – like the bans on books by certain authors – kind of stay the same.

Since 1935, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remains the only American book prize that recognizes books that have made significant contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. Joining us at the City Club is this year's Lifetime Achievement award winner, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a civil rights icon and a veteran journalist with a remarkable career.rnrnHunter-Gault first made history in 1961 when she desegregated the University of Georgia after she mounted a successful legal challenge that granted her admission. In 1963, the Georgia governor declared her marriage to University of Georgia classmate Walter L. Stovall, who was white, "a shame and disgrace." The state's Attorney General even threatened prosecution.rnrnCharlayne has worked for The New Yorker, The New York Times, PBS, NPR, and CNN. She has received multiple awards, including an Emmy and Peabody for her distinguished work covering the Apartheid at PBS NewsHour. In her latest book, My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives, Charlayne chronicles her lifelong commitment to reporting on Black people in their totality, from the Civil Rights Movement to the election of Barack Obama, and beyond.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a longtime journalist who worked as a reporter for The New York Times, PBS, NPR and CNN. She was one of the first Black journalists to hold high-profile positions in major newsrooms, paving the way for the next generation of journalists of color.And before she even started her journalism career, she was already in the history books. She was one of two Black students who desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961.Listen to a rebroadcast of a conversation MPR News host Angela Davis had in February with Hunter-Gault about her latest book, “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.”Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.Sixty years ago, you were one of two Black students to enroll at the University of Georgia in its history. Tell us about your experience.There was a group of aggressive Black men who felt that Georgia waited too long to get the Brown v. Board of Education decision tested. Brown v. Board was the decision in 1954 that outlawed segregated schools. These men implemented it. They came to our high school and asked the principal for two students who might be interested in going. Of course, with Hamilton Holmes and me being first and third in our high school class, they brought us in. The best way to describe it is that we desegregated it, instead of integrating it. It took a while to integrate. Desegregate was saying: OK, Black people are here, but we can't go to the same cafeteria. There were students gathering around the registration building, which is now named for Hamilton and me, by the way, yelling the n-word and ‘go home.' Because of the background and training that I had, it didn't bother me. When they would yell that I would ask myself who they were talking about because I was a queen, so they couldn't be talking about me.Your most recent publication is a book called “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.” Who do you want to read it?I want everybody who can read to read it, and if they have children who can't read, read it to them. Because I think that it's like the book I wrote about Africa. Africa for years was always reported on in terms of what I call the four Ds: death, disease, disaster and despair, and there's more to the continent than that.Not everybody in this book is Black. White people died for us in the civil rights movement. I remember when John Lewis, who was one of our great civil rights pioneers, took a bus to challenge the sacred desegregation of interstate bus routes. White people went with them, and before they left D.C., they all signed their wills, because they knew that they were undertaking a serious challenge. So while primarily it's the history of Black people, for the most part, it's the history of our people, who are my people.Tell us about the conversation you had with Nelson Mandela, shortly before he was sworn in as president of South Africa, when you told him you couldn't attend his swearing-in ceremony.I apologized because he knew me from the years that I had covered the anti-apartheid struggle. But I was a mom with two younger children, one was eight years younger than the other one. I had very good people who looked after him, including their father, but I was away from them a lot. At that time, my son was graduating from Emory University and I had to be there. So I said to Mandela: “I'm so happy to be here to interview you prior to you taking over as the first Black president of South Africa, but unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to be here,” and explained why. Then he looked at me with the most wonderful fatherly smile and he said: “Of course, you have to be there. You can interview me anytime.” And that was true. Anytime I wanted to interview Mandela, he would make time for me to do it. I got to Atlanta in time to see my son get his bachelor's degree. As you know, because you are a mom, it's a balancing act.Your book emphasizes the importance of teaching young people Black history and how it has shaped who you are. What is it like for you to hear stories about the backlash to teaching Black history in schools?I think that there are people out there who are fighting the backlash. It's early. In some cases like in Florida, there's one school that has been taken over by people who don't want this history taught. You just have to continue to try to inform people about why Black history is important. And also, because it's our armor. We learn from history. You look at the history, and then you just try to share that with people in a way that helps them work towards a more perfect union. There are a lot of people who are unhappy with this attack on Black history and I'm hoping that they're gonna step up and speak out to people who are opposing this teaching so that they can understand why it is important and, what it has meant to our country as a whole. Because in our history, we have people, even before Martin Luther King way, going way back to Frederick Douglass and so many others. They need that history. What are the stories you remember about covering the end of apartheid?You just go and talk to people, you get your feet in the street. I wrote about a young man, his name was George, but he was actually called Doctor Death on the day of his death. He helped us get through so much when we were in South Africa, leading us around to various places and helping us to know where to go to talk to former apartheid people. This is how you work with people no matter what color they are if they have the right attitudes. When I returned to New York, where I was working then for PBS NewsHour, I learned he had been murdered. He was asked to help cover a story about Black people rioting with each other and when he went there, he was seen as the enemy because he was white, and they murdered him. So I wrote a piece called Doctor Death and that was published in the New Yorker. So I guess, as I talk, and I think about my own life, which I rarely do, I think it's the people who have helped me continue on my path.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 19, 2022] Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault has reported on Black lives for over fifty years, a career that came after she won a legal challenge to become one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Reporting for The New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS, and NPR, now she's released a book, My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives, which compiles much of her writing throughout her career. Hunter-Gault joined us to reflect on her career, and the state of journalism.

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

Those who follow this podcast, my newsletter, or have worked with me as a client know that I stress sacred rest. I call it sacred rest because it is mandatory in our lives, and you must put it in your calendar. It is not something you squeeze in when you get a moment. It is an essential part of how your chemistry works and your body, how your mind functions, and your ability to be creative and have that ability to move from your zone of excellence into your zone of genius. Our guest on Episode 7 of Unshackled Leadership: A Lantern for Black Women has written a book about self-care and explains in full detail why Black women must have it. Marita Golden is an award-winning author with more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. In 2021 she published a book called The Strong Black Woman and followed that up this year with The New Black Woman. Please allow me to introduce you to Marita Golden, a woman I have known and respected for over 30 years, and her work constantly inspires me. Her books include some of my favorites, A Woman's Place, Saving Our Sons, and Don't Play in the Sun. Each of her books is a deep dive into being Black. Her books have been hailed by fellow Black women authors such as Toni Morrison and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. In 2021 she published a book called The Strong Black Woman and followed that up this year with The New Black Woman. Please allow me to introduce you to Marita Golden, a woman I have known and respected for over 30 years, and her work constantly inspires me. She offers writing classes for a variety of genres, including biography. Marita Goldenwww.maritagolden.commaria@maritagolden.com

In 1958, with Hamilton Holmes, she desegregated the University of Georgia and went on to a distinguished career in journalism. Her early inspiration? Brenda Starr. “I read about her in the comic strips in my grandmother's newspaper; she read three newspapers a day.”

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia. In this episode she and Lissa discuss her life's work, her philosophy, and her latest book -My People: Five Decades Writing About Black Lives

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a longtime journalist who worked as a reporter for The New York Times, PBS, NPR and CNN. She was one of the first Black journalists to hold high-profile positions in major newsrooms, paving the way for the next generation of journalists of color. And before she even started her journalism career, she was already in the history books. She was one of two Black students who desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961. MPR News host Angela Davis talks to Hunter-Gault about her latest book, “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.” Here are five key moments from the conversation. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. Sixty years ago, you were one of two Black students to enroll at the University of Georgia in its history. Tell us about your experience.  There was a group of aggressive Black men who felt that Georgia waited too long to get the Brown v Board of Education decision tested. Brown v Board was the decision in 1954 that outlawed segregated schools. These men implemented it. They came to our high school and asked the principal for two students who might be interested in going. Of course, with Hamilton Holmes and me being first and third in our high school class, they brought us in.  The best way to describe it is that we desegregated it, instead of integrating it. It took a while to integrate. Desegregate was saying: OK, Black people are here, but we can't go to the same cafeteria. There were students gathering around the registration building, which is now named for Hamilton and me, by the way, yelling the n-word and ‘go home.' Because of the background and training that I had, it didn't bother me. When they would yell that I would ask myself who they were talking about because I was a queen, so they couldn't be talking about me. Your most recent publication is a book called “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.” Who do you want to read it? I want everybody who can read to read it, and if they have children who can't read, read it to them. Because I think that it's like the book I wrote about Africa. Africa for years was always reported on in terms of what I call the four Ds: death, disease, disaster, and despair, and there's more to the continent than that. Not everybody in this book is Black. White people died for us in the civil rights movement. I remember when John Lewis, who was one of our great civil rights pioneers, took a bus to challenge the sacred desegregation of interstate bus routes. White people went with them, and before they left DC, they all signed their wills, because they knew that they were undertaking a serious challenge. So while primarily it's the history of Black people, for the most part, it's the history of our people, who are my people. Tell us about the conversation you had with Nelson Mandela, shortly before he was sworn in as president of South Africa, when you told him you couldn't attend his swearing-in ceremony I apologized because he knew me from the years that I had covered the anti-apartheid struggle. But I was a mom with two younger children, one was eight years younger than the other one. I had very good people who looked after him, including their father, but I was away from them a lot.  At that time, my son was graduating from Emory University and I had to be there. So I said to Mandela: “I'm so happy to be here to interview you prior to you taking over as the first Black president of South Africa, but unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to be here,” and explained why. Then he looked at me with the most wonderful fatherly smile and he said: “Of course, you have to be there. You can interview me anytime.” And that was true. Anytime I wanted to interview Mandela, he would make time for me to do it. I got to Atlanta in time to see my son get his bachelor's degree. As you know, because you are a mom, it's a balancing act. Your book emphasizes the importance of teaching young people Black history and how it has shaped who you are. What is it like for you to hear stories about the backlash to teaching Black history in schools? I think that there are people out there who are fighting the backlash. It's early. In some cases like in Florida, there's one school that has been taken over by people who don't want this history taught. You just have to continue to try to inform people about why Black history is important. And also, because it's our armor. We learn from history. You look at the history, and then you just try to share that with people in a way that helps them work towards a more perfect union.  There are a lot of people who are unhappy with this attack on Black history and I'm hoping that they're gonna step up and speak out to people who are opposing this teaching so that they can understand why it is important and, what it has meant to our country as a whole. Because in our history, we have people, even before Martin Luther King way, going way back to Frederick Douglass and so many others. They need that history.  What are the stories you remember about covering the end of apartheid? You just go and talk to people, you get your feet in the street. I wrote about a young man, his name was George, but he was actually called Doctor Death on the day of his death. He helped us get through so much when we were in South Africa, leading us around to various places and helping us to know where to go to talk to former apartheid people. This is how you work with people no matter what color they are if they have the right attitudes.  When I returned to New York, where I was working then for PBS NewsHour, I learned he had been murdered. He was asked to help cover a story about Black people rioting with each other and when he went there, he was seen as the enemy because he was white, and they murdered him. So I wrote a piece called Doctor Death and that was published in the New Yorker. So I guess, as I talk, and I think about my own life, which I rarely do, I think it's the people who have helped me continue on my path.

As we honor MLK Day, Maiysha chats with civil rights legend and renowned journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. She shares with Maiysha gut-wrenching stories of being the first Black student to attend the University of Georgia;  from dorm life to life-threatening attacks, her stories cement her place in the history book and anthology of extraordinary, brave Black women In her new book "My People," Hunter-Gault tells her own heroic story as well as the iconic and history-making people she has reported on worldwide throughout her decades-long journalism career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a trailblazing journalist. The first Black reporter for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, she's spent more than a half-century reporting on the lives of Black Americans. Her newest book, My People, is a collection of pieces written throughout her career that provide a nuanced look at Black communities across the U.S. In this episode, she speaks to NPR's Michel Martin about how our country's understanding of race has changed since she first began working as a journalist, but how some things – like the bans on books by certain authors – kind of stay the same.

Host, Rob Lorei, interviews legendary Journalist and Author, Charlayne Hunter-Gault To learn more about Florida This Week, visit www.wedu.org/floridathisweek

Charlayne Hunter-Gault has spent nearly sixty years chronicling history as a journalist, but when she was just 19 years old, she played a crucial role in making it. On January 9, 1961, she and her classmate Hamilton Holmes bravely walked onto University of Georgia's campus becoming the first two Black students to integrate the school. On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie talks with Charlayne about that historic day and a career that stationed the journalist at some of the most respected media outlets in the country, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, and PBS Newshour. No matter the outlet, Charlayne made it her mission to cover “Black people in ways they were rarely portrayed in the media — in their full humanity.” Katie and Charlayne talk about some of her most impactful stories, many of which have been collected into her new book, “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American civil rights activist and journalist, joins the show to talk about her time at UGA and being one of the first two black students to attend the school. David Bazzel then joins to talk Arkansas football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In conversation with Dorothy Roberts Referred to by Jelani Cobb as ''a Dean of American journalism,'' Charlayne Hunter-Gault has chronicled some of the past half-century's most important moments in Black life, culture, and politics. Often the only Black woman in the newsroom, she wrote for The New Yorker and The New York Times, where in 1968 she established the paper's Harlem bureau. Also a broadcast journalist, Hunter-Gault served as a reporter and anchor for PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, NPR's chief Africa correspondent, and the South Africa bureau chief for CNN. Her many honors include two Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and honors from the National Urban coalition and the National Association of Black Journalists. Ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to Barack Obama's presidential election, My People is a definitive compilation of reportage and commentary that explores the Black American experience.  Dorothy Roberts is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies and the author of several books that focus on health, social justice, and bioethics. Her most recent book is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families-and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. (recorded 10/24/2022)

Charlayne Hunter-Gault doesn't just report the history. She is living history. She tells Joe Madison what it was like to be an award-winning journalist across five decades of covering Black lives.Buy her new book here: https://www.amazon.com/My-People-Decades-Writing-About/dp/0063135396

Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault has reported on Black lives for over fifty years, a career that came after she won a legal challenge to become one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Reporting for The New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS, and NPR, now she's released a book, My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives, which compiles much of her writing throughout her career. Hunter-Gault is with us to reflect on her career, and the state of journalism today.

Bakari Sellers is joined by journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault to discuss her new book, ‘My People' (2:50), making sense of the present, as an active member of the Civil Rights Movement (4:45), and how the American media can better inform citizens (17:52). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Charlayne Hunter-Gault Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr.  Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlayne Hunter-Gault's trailblazing career in journalism has spanned more than 50 years. But before that, she made news herself when she became one of the first Black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Hunter-Gault joined Judy Woodruff to discuss her new book, "My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives." PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Charlayne Hunter-Gault's trailblazing career in journalism has spanned more than 50 years. But before that, she made news herself when she became one of the first Black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Hunter-Gault joined Judy Woodruff to discuss her new book, "My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives." PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Women have been at the forefront of ongoing protests in Iran, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the so-called morality police three weeks ago. In a country infamous for crushing dissent, these women are trying to force authorities to pay attention to their demands, sometimes at their own peril, as Jomana Karadsheh explains. Following her report Christiane is joined by Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel laureate and human rights lawyer who was Iran's first female presiding judge before being demoted following the 1979 revolution.  Also on today's show: celebrated journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of a new memoir, My People; Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

In this episode, Eric speaks with artist, actor & singer; Suesan Stovall. They discuss how she first became exposed to the arts and artists and the role her family played in surrounding her with art and immersing her into the art world. They discuss her artistic journey -- beginning with acting and the performing arts; her training and education and how she transitioned into making art, which began as a way to sustain her performing career.. from collage as a hobby, to selling her work, to eventually building a following, clientele.. and showing her work at galleries! How she eventually moved to Los Angeles, fell into the music scene, doing music for movies and commercials. They discuss the art scene in LA and how Black Artists are gaining more and more recognition and explore  her artists process, what inspires her and the thematic nature of her work; that pays homage to her ancestors. For more visit: www.ericsperspective.comGuest Bio:  Born and raised in New York City;  Suesan Stovall is an important American artist of memory and message. Strong statements of history, injustice and longing are delivered with humor, irony and love in mixed media and collage.. performance and music.  A common theme of her work is remembrance. She often documents the past, from an old building being torn down to African American slavery to Native American land displacement. The daughter of the civil rights pioneer and newswoman Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Stovall frequently incorporates themes from the African American experience into her work. She is a homeless advocate, has been photographing homeless people for years. Owner of the Groovy Sue Gallery: the tiny boutique gallery, a converted garage in Martha's Vineyard that hosts her work. About Eric's Perspective: A podcast series on African American art with Eric Hanks — African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery; offers his perspective on African American art through in-depth conversations with fellow art enthusiasts where they discuss the past, present & future of African American art.For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com#ERICSPERSPECTIVE #AFRICANAMERICAN #ART SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2vVJkDn LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2B6wB3USpotify: https://spoti.fi/3j6QRmWGoogle Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fNNgrYiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/2KtYGXv Pandora: https://pdora.co/38pFWAmConnect with us ONLINE: Visit Eric's Perspective website: https://bit.ly/2ZQ41x1Facebook: https://bit.ly/3jq5fXPInstagram: https://bit.ly/39jFZxGTwitter: https://bit.ly/2OMRx33  www.mhanksgallery.comAbout Eric Hanks: African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery was one of the leading representatives of Black artists through his Santa Monica gallery, M. Hanks Gallery, founded in 1988. By selling their works nationally, contributing to museum collections, and publishing catalogs, Hanks has helped create an audience and market for these artists. 

Martha's Vineyard, with its beautiful shoreline and farm land, has long been a summer destination, but most visitors know little about the history of the Wampanoag people. A group on the island is reviving that history by educating children and adults about the Native culture and traditions while also aiming to protect our increasingly challenged planet. Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Martha's Vineyard, with its beautiful shoreline and farm land, has long been a summer destination, but most visitors know little about the history of the Wampanoag people. A group on the island is reviving that history by educating children and adults about the Native culture and traditions while also aiming to protect our increasingly challenged planet. Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Martha's Vineyard, with its beautiful shoreline and farm land, has long been a summer destination, but most visitors know little about the history of the Wampanoag people. A group on the island is reviving that history by educating children and adults about the Native culture and traditions while also aiming to protect our increasingly challenged planet. Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Martha's Vineyard, with its beautiful shoreline and farm land, has long been a summer destination, but most visitors know little about the history of the Wampanoag people. A group on the island is reviving that history by educating children and adults about the Native culture and traditions while also aiming to protect our increasingly challenged planet. Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Air Date 6/4/2022 Today we take a look at some of the obvious steps we need to take to reduce gun violence in the United States, debunk some of the favored propaganda supporting unfettered gun ownership and explore the origins of how Gun Culture™ was invented by corporations as the frontier era need for guns began to vanish pushing them to convert guns from tools that were needed but not loved into items that were loved though no longer needed. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) Join our Discord community! BestOfTheLeft.com/Advertise Sponsor the show! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-27-22 We revisit some conversations about gun violence and gun culture this week on the show. In March of last year we spoke with Igor Volsky, executive director of Guns Down America Ch. 2: NRA's "Good Guy With A Gun" Theory Failed In Real Time In Uvalde - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 5-27-22 In addition to the police response being an unfathomable failure, it is also proof that the ‘good guy with a gun' theory doesn't work. Ch. 3: Jordan Klepper Debunks The "Good Guy with a Gun" Argument - The Daily Show - Air Date 12-11-15 Jordan Klepper sets out to determine the likelihood of another gun owner stopping an active shooter. Ch. 4: The Second Amendment Isn't About Killing Politicians or Overthrowing Democracy - The Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 5-31-22 The far-right wants you to think the Second Amendment is about average Americans taking up arms against a tyrannical government. But none of that is true... The real history of the second amendment is far more interesting and unsettling. Ch. 5: Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger speaking to Charlayne Hunter-Gault - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 12-16-1991 Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger speaking to Charlayne Hunter-Gault, PBS News Hours, 12/16/1991 Ch. 6: How the Gun Industry Used Marketing to Change a Culture - Letters and Politics - Air Date 8-7-19 Today, we are in conversation with Pamela Haag about American gun culture and its influence on policy and gun market. Guest: Pamela Haag is an award-winning nonfiction writer, essayist, cultural commentator, and historian. Ch. 7: Mass Shootings: American Exceptionalism of the Worst Kind - Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman - Air Date 5-26-22 “Together we rise,” reads the motto on a wall of the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The school serves about 600 students in the second thru fourth grades. Over ninety percent are Latinx. MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 8: Rightwing Media's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to Mass Shootings - Citations Needed - Air Date 5-27-22 In this public News Brief, we discuss the phoned-in, cynical response by Republicans to mass shooting and how they've devolved into a dark, meta self-parody. Ch. 9: A History of the 2nd Amendment, Gun Control, & the Rise of the NRA - Letters and Politics - Air Date 5-25-22 Guest: Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science Department at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. He is the author of 15 books including Guns across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights. FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 10: Final comments on the bonus episode in which we explain the cultural foundations of capitalism, guns and beyond MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions) SHOW IMAGE: Description: A pencil sketch of a larger-than-life hand gun on the shoulders of a weary man, in the image of Jesus carrying the cross. He stands in a pool of red blood. Credit: “Gun Culture” by Christopher Dombres, Flickr | Public Domain | Changes: Cropped   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com

In Sarasota, Florida large scale artworks are being used to teach students about diversity, inclusion and mental health. This comes at a time when there is growing controversy in the state, and school districts across the country, over how and whether to teach about racism in America. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault went to see how the exhibit encourages inclusion. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

There are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. While the pandemic has made life more difficult for these vulnerable kids, many say the foster care system itself has been putting them at risk for decades. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat down with one former foster child who is now on a mission to fix the system by helping families stay together. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Kenneth Dious shares his story of the night he stood guard for a Black student who had just attended her first day of classes at the University of Georgia. He was only 15 years old when word spread in his hometown of Athens, Georgia, that a violent white mob had gathered outside the dorm room of Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Kenneth and three other Black men rushed to the crowd, ready to fight if needed. Episode Transcript available here. Read the story by Stephanie Allen to learn more about what students and community leaders did to integrate UGA. The “7 Days of 1961” podcast features stories of resistance, told by the people who lived it and made history that year. Learn more about the heroic civil rights activists and the danger they faced at 7daysof1961.usatoday.com.

The civil rights movement was nothing if not a violent struggle. The courageous actions of Black women and men 60 years ago sparked pivotal civil rights battles against school and business segregation, police brutality and voting exclusion. Many of the activists were high school or college students risking their lives and futures.People who fought for racial justice in 1961 take us back in history to the moments when they risked everything on the Seven Days of 1961 podcast, from USA TODAY.We're bringing 5 Things listeners a special preview of first full episode of Seven Days of 1961, “Violent white mob protests integration. Kenneth Dious ran to the crowd, ready to fight.”In the episode, Kenneth Dious shares his story of the night he stood guard for a Black student who had just attended her first day of classes at the University of Georgia. He was only 15 years old when word spread in his hometown of Athens, Georgia, that a violent white mob had gathered outside the dorm room of Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Kenneth and three other Black men rushed to the crowd, ready to fight if needed.New episodes of Seven Days of 1961 drop every Tuesday starting Nov. 2nd. Get access to the full podcast at the links below:Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on Google PodcastsRead more stories in this project at sevendaysof1961.usatoday.com.Read full transcript of podcast here.Also available at art19.com/shows/5-Things.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

in which we discuss Jimi and the Star Spangled Banner, his new books on the film, and "Just move one stone."

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With the Fourth of July around the corner, we get a lesson in grilling chicken skewers, clams and peaches from chef Kathy Gunst. And, the new documentary "Summer of Soul" about the Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969 opens in theaters and can be streamed on Hulu on Friday. PBS special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who appears in the film, joins us.

"High on the Hog" tells the sweeping history of African-American food -- first as a book and now in a highly acclaimed four-part series on Netflix. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talked with some of the show's creative team about why this approach has sparked such interest. The story is part of our "Race Matters" series and our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

"High on the Hog" tells the sweeping history of African-American food -- first as a book and now in a highly acclaimed four-part series on Netflix. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talked with some of the show's creative team about why this approach has sparked such interest. The story is part of our "Race Matters" series and our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

As the nation watches the trial of Derek Chauvin, we return to the debate that George Floyd's death ignited. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault spoke with current and former law enforcement officers about "defunding the police," and what reforms they believe are needed to improve relations between them and the communities they serve. It's part of our ongoing series, Race Matters. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

American civil rights activist, presidential confidant and corporate pioneer Vernon Jordan has died at the age of 85. A family statement said he passed Monday in Atlanta. Jordan was a leading advocate for Black Americans and a mentor to those who came after him. Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Ursula Burns join Judy Woodruff to discuss his legacy, from civil rights to politics to business. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Daily reports of disturbing racial incidents and what appear to be deepening racial divisions within the country leave many looking for answers. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault recently spoke with Dr. Ronald Crutcher, a classical musician and president of the University of Richmond, about confronting the complexities of racism. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Daily reports of disturbing racial incidents and what appear to be deepening racial divisions within the country leave many looking for answers. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault recently spoke with Dr. Ronald Crutcher, a classical musician and president of the University of Richmond, about confronting the complexities of racism. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in Bridges' footsteps 60 years ago and desegregated the University of Georgia along with Hamilton Holmes, to discuss racism and civil rights in the modern era. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in Bridges' footsteps 60 years ago and desegregated the University of Georgia along with Hamilton Holmes, to discuss racism and civil rights in the modern era. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Tania Cypriano is a documentary filmmaker who has worked in both the United States and her native Brazil for over 30 years. Her collaborators have included Martin Scorsese, Bill Moyers, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Much of her work has focused on medicine and medical issues (including films on AIDS and Breastmilk). Her latest is Born To Be, which follows pioneering plastic surgeon Dr. Jess Ting, as he runs the first ever fellowship in gender-affirmation surgery. The film is released on November 18th. Subscribe to Endeavours wherever podcasts are sold! Social @EndeavoursRadio web: endeavoursmedia.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dan-mcpeake/message

Featured on our first podcast episode, we have the phenomenal Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an American civil rights activist, journalist, and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. She was the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia in 1961.

As the United States grapples with the novel coronavirus, nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd insist the country must confront a second epidemic: racism. Despite a longstanding belief that we are a nation divided, some say there are reasons for hope. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to New York Times columnist and author David Brooks for Race Matters. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The month of March is international women's history month and we recently celebrated International Women's Day. Black history month just ended in February -- and so in honor of both, Katie will be highlighting some outstanding women in this space. This week...Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an Emmy award winning investigative journalist and recipient of 2 Peabody Awards. But before any of that, she was the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia in the segregated South in 1961. Charlayne Hunter-Gault graduated with a degree in journalism in 1963. She went on to work for the New York Times ,The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and worked as NPR's chief correspondent in Africa for many years. She's also an author. She wrote in my place a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a pioneer and paved the way for many women in journalism and education. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe Lockhart served as the 19th White House Press Secretary under President Bill Clinton from 1998-2000. In 1999, Joe became the only White House Press Secretary in American history to serve during the Senate Impeachment Trial of a US President. Later Joe co-founded the Glover Park Group and went on to serve as Senior Vice President of the National Football League. Joe is currently a CNN political analyst and Vice Chairman of Edelman Public Relations.We talk to Joe about his recent CNN appearance with former Independent Counsel Ken Starr and how far he thinks Donald Trump is on the path toward Impeachment.And Katie has a Final Word on legendary journalist and civil rights pioneer Charlayne Hunter-Gault. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eugenia Harvey has left an indelible mark on the world of news media as a veteran broadcast journalist on ABC News’ “PrimeTime Live”, BET, CNN and the Steve Harvey Show. Today Eugenia serves as the executive producer and project director of multi-platform initiatives at WNET, a public television station that operates in the New York metropolitan area. At WNET, Eugenia manages two public media initiative programs — Chasing the Dream, Poverty & Opportunity in America and Peril & Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change. Previously, Eugenia produced Race Matters: Solutions on PBS NewsHour with famed civil rights leader and journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. After graduating from the University of Georgia as a Broadcast Journalism major and minor in Political Science and Spanish, Eugenia earned a Master’s Degree in Journalism at Columbia University. Press play to learn more about Eugenia’s advice around how to build a career in journalism. The post 107: How to Break Into Broadcast Journalism w/ Eugenia Harvey, WNET [Espresso Shots] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

In this episode, distinguished Grady College alumna Charlayne Hunter-Gault reflects on her career as a reporter and time at UGA, her drive for becoming a journalist and her lifelong mission of providing a voice to the voiceless.

This year’s duPont-Columbia Awards celebrated our 75th anniversary in a room packed with journalism greats like NBC News’ Lester Holt, CBS News’ Jane Pauley, This American Life’s Ira Glass, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Bill Moyers, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and so many others. Holt kicked off the evening by addressing the current anti-media climate head-on. Throughout the ceremony, award winners and honorees echoed his sentiments, reaffirming just how critical journalism is, now more than ever. See the complete list of this year’s winners here. Watch the full ceremony and learn more about the duPont-Columbia Awards at duPont.org. #duPont2017

Middlemarch Films, Inc. was founded in 1978 by Ellen Hovde (now retired) and Muffie Meyer. Over the past thirty years, Middlemarch Films has produced more than one hundred films and videos. These have been distributed nationally and internationally in theaters, on television, in the home video and educational markets. All of Middlemarch's major productions have opened to extremely favorable reviews in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, People, and many more. Their productions include documentaries, theatrical features, video series and children's films, for which they have won numerous awards: Emmys, Cine Gold Eagles, the Japan Prize, Christopher Awards, the Freddy Award, the Columbia-DuPont and the George Foster Peabody Awards for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. Their works has been selected for festivals in Japan, Greece, London, Edinburgh, Cannes, Toronto, Chicago and New York. They have been twice honored by the Directors Guild of America. Meyer is currently in the last stages of fundraising for a 2-hour special about Stalin and his legacy. She has produced and/or directed numerous major series and specials. These include "LIBERTY! THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION", a six-hour mini-series for PBS (Peabody Award); "ALEXANDER HAMILTON", a two-part program for PBS; "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN", a three-part mini-series for PBS (Emmy); "GREY GARDENS", a theatrically released documentary that received much acclaim, (co-directed with the Maysles Brothers & Ellen Hovde); "MYSTERY OF MATTER", broadcast fall 2015 on PBS (Emmy); "MAKING ROUNDS", released theatrically winter 2015; "SAVING THE NATIONAL TREASURES", a NOVA Special about the National Archives' restoration of the Declaration of Independence; "TWYLA ON TWYLA", Middlemarch's third film with choreographer, Twyla Tharp; "AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY - A CENTURY OF IMAGES", a three-hour series for PBS about the impact of photography on America in the 20th century; "BEHIND THE SCENES", a ten-part children's series (PBS) on the arts featuring David Hockney, Julie Taymor, Max Roach, Matt Groening and others; "THE CRASH OF 1929", tracing the economic boom, the "New Era" of prosperity, that ends with the great stock market crash of 1929; "AN EMPIRE OF REASON", a docu-drama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution, starring Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, William F. Buckley, Jr., Phil Donahue, Robert MacNeil, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Forrest Sawyer, Andrea Mitchell, Governors Mario Cuomo, Tom Kean, Mayor Ed Koch and more; "THE NEW MEDICINE", a two-hour special for PBS about the humanistic practice of medicine; "EARTH EXPLORER", follows a geophysicist as she investigates the break-up of the North American continent; "ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE", a feature film for ABC, released theatrically in 1982 and based on stories by Grace Paley, written by John Sayles, starring Ellen Barkin, David Strathairn and Kevin Bacon. Middlemarch Films has also produced corporate films for clients including: Morgan Stanley, Sullivan and Cromwell, Johnson & Johnson, and Kodak. Muffie is just one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show. In the podcast, Host Steven Shalowitz explores with his guests where they'd go if given a one way ticket, no coming back!  Destinations may be in the past, present, future, real, imaginary or a state of mind. Several of Steven's guests have included:  Legendary Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett; CNN's Richard Quest & Bill Weir; Journalist-Humorist-Actor Mo Rocca (CBS Sunday Morning & The Cooking Channel's "My Grandmother's Ravioli"); Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.; as well as leading photographers, artists, writers and more.

The Visionary Leadership Award honors a leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world. Occurring outside of the annual Festival, the award connects the Festival's Ideas programs to every day impacts on the community and the world, and was created in honor of the late Jean M. Handley's leadership as a Founding Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.We are thrilled to honor Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning journalist whose life and work has brought light to a number of important issues in civil rights, social justice, public health, and education.Ms. Hunter-Gault's personal life story forms the backdrop for the important work that she has accomplished professionally: in 1961, she experienced the civil rights movement first hand as one of the first black students to be admitted to the University of Georgia, in 1961. Her attorney during the case was Constance Baker Motley, a New Haven native who would later become the first black female to serve as a federal judge.

Robin takes on willful ignorance, and speaks with "Sex and World Peace" author Valerie Hudson; and sexploitation survivor Rachel Lloyd. Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about her career and the state of the world; members of Ingoma Nshya, a women's drumming troupe formed by Rwandan genocide survivors, plays; and Dr. Marianne Legato explains the new science of gender-specific medicine.

Ray Suarez, Allida Black, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Roger Wilkins discuss how the lessons learned from the civil rights movement 50 years ago inform the struggle for equal rights today.

Greg Mortenson, Moderator Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist delivered the first Spring 2009 Body Politic(s) lecture and launched the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts Tenth Anniversary celebration with her talk titled "From Jim Crow to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond: A Journalist's Journey."

Broadcast journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports on the struggle for democracy and human rights that she witnessed during her many years covering South Africa in this keynote address honoring the 20th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt College at the University of California, San Diego. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15980]

Broadcast journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports on the struggle for democracy and human rights that she witnessed during her many years covering South Africa in this keynote address honoring the 20th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt College at the University of California, San Diego. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15980]