Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Born	27 February 1942 (1942-02-27) (age 67) Due West, South Carolina, USA
Education	University of Georgia (BAJ) Wayne State University Washington University in St. Louis
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse(s)	Ronald Gault (1971-present) Walter Stovall (m. 1963)
Children	2: son and daughter
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times The New Yorker

Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born 27 February 1942) is an American journalist and foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Service.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early years

Hunter-Gault was born to US Army Chaplain Charles S.H. Hunter Jr., and Althea Ruth Brown in Due West, South Carolina. She spent most of her childhood in Covington, Georgia, and attended Henry McNeal Turner High School in Atlanta.

In 1961 Hunter-Gault and Hamilton E. Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia, ending racial segregation at that institution. Though her dormitory, Myers Hall, would later became the center of racial riots early-on, she graduated from the University of Georgia in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (BAJ) from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

[edit] Career

Hunter-Gault is on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She was the Johannesburg, South Africa bureau chief for CNN from 1999 - 2005. She is a former chief national correspondent for PBS on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (later renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer) from 1983 to 1997, chief correspondent in Johannesburg for CNN from 1977 to 1999, and is currently a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio. Additionally, she was the first African-American reporter for The New Yorker in 1963, and the second after Nancy Hicks Maynard at The New York Times where she remained for more than ten years, and received the New York Times Publisher Award. She was an investigative reporter and anchorwoman for WRC-TV from 1967 to 1968.

Hunter-Gault won two Peabody Awards and two Emmy Awards for her work on the series "Apartheid's People." She also received the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in 1986 and was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists' Hall of Fame in 2005.

The academic building at the University of Georgia where she and Holmes registered for classes was renamed the Hunter-Holmes Academic Building in 2001.

In 2005 a memorial to Hunter-Gault in the Myers Hall dormitory at the University of Georgia drew criticism for the use of an un-attributed racial slur. Hunter-Gault herself petitioned for its inclusion in the memorial as being of historical value, but it was ultimately replaced with a quote from her book In My Place, along with her letter to the student paper supporting the slur's use following intensive regional media attention and protest by the campus branch of the NAACP.^[1]

She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, the second intercollegiate Greek-letter organization established for African American women.

[edit] Personal life

Hunter-Gault was married to Walter Stovall in 1963. After that marriage ended in divorce, she later married investment banker Ronald Gault in 1971. She has a daughter, Susan Stovall from her first marriage, and a son, actor Chuma Hunter-Gault.

[edit] Filmography

• Dare to Struggle... Dare to Win (1999)
• Globalization & Human Rights (1998)
• Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television (1993)

[edit] Bibliography

• "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment" The New Yorker 60/52 (11 February 1985): 28-29. Talk piece about Darrell Cabey, shot by Bernhard Goetz.

[edit] References

1. ^ David Bethea (18 February 2008). "NAACP Just One of Many Varied Voices". Red and Black. http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2005/02/18/Opinions/Naacp.Just.One.Of.Many.Varied.Voices-2572513.shtml. Retrieved 2008-09-21. 

• Amanda Nash (2004-03-29). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". New Georgia Encyclopedia. University of Georgia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2433. Retrieved 2008-09-21. 
• Carol Sears Botsch (1997-12-27). "Charlayne Hunter-Gault". USC Aiken. http://www.usca.edu/aasc/hunter.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-21. 

[edit] External links

• Charlayne Hunter-Gault at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault Biography at National Public Radio