#Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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Spelman College Celebrates the Inauguration of 11th President Dr. Helene D. Gayle

"Congratulations to Dr. Helene D. Gayle on being inaugurated as the 11th President of Spelman College! We're excited to see all the great things she will accomplish. #SpelmanCollege #HeleneDGayle #InvestitureCeremony #HigherEducation

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A few pages from 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' — an expanded edition of Parks’ classic account of race relations in America, with previously unpublished images and texts. Back in Stock from @steidlverlag & @gordonparksfoundation⁠ ⁠ In the summer of 1956, @life magazine sent Parks to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws in the rural South. The resulting color photographs are among Parks’ most powerful images, and, in the decades since, have become emblematic representations of race relations in America. Pursued at grave danger to the photographer himself, the project was an important chapter in Parks’ career-long endeavor to use the camera as a weapon for social change.⁠ ⁠ After the photos were first presented in a 1956 issue of Life, the bulk of Parks’ assignment was thought to be lost. In 2011, five years after Parks’ death, the Gordon Parks Foundation found more than 200 color transparencies belonging to the series. In 2014 the series was first published as a book, and since then new photographs have been uncovered.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr, Michal Raz-Russo. Text by Maurice Berger, Dawoud Bey, Charlayne Hunter-Gault.⁠ ⁠ #gordonparks #segregationstory #segregation #photobook #gordonparkssegregationstory @dawoudbey https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJEuAZp7jK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is a journalist and former foreign correspondent for NPR, and PBS. She joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV, DC, and anchored the local evening news. She joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban black community. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report as a correspondent, becoming The NewsHour's national correspondent. She left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She worked in Johannesburg as NPR’s chief correspondent in Africa. She left her post as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, although she still regularly appeared on the station and others, as an Africa specialist. During her association with The NewsHour, she won additional awards: two Emmys and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism for her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour series on South Africa. She received the 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, the Sidney Hillman Award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, and two awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming. The University of Georgia Academic Building is named for her, along with Hamilton Holmes, as it is called the Holmes/Hunter Academic Building. She has been a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Carter Center. She is the author of In My Place, a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta https://www.instagram.com/p/CpKnY1dr0Wt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I recently visited the “Struggle for Justice” exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. The pictures provided above are art pieces of two incredibly notable women in Civil Rights, Rosa Parks (right) and Charlayne Hunter-Gault (left). I had a wonderful time exploring the exhibit: admiring the artistry of the portraits and getting to learn about the people they depict. I urge you all to take time out of your day for a quick visit, you won’t regret it!

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Antonio Velardo shares: 6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week by Shreya Chattopadhyay

By Shreya Chattopadhyay Selected paperbacks from the Book Review, including titles by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hua Hsu, Kate Manning and more. Published: October 6, 2023 at 05:04AM from NYT Books https://ift.tt/fQG15ug via IFTTT

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Episode 177 - Book Clubs

This episode we’re talking about the concept of mass promotional book clubs! Whether it’s One City, One Read, Canada Reads, or Oprah’s book club, listen to us discuss if we read book club books, the celebrity book club we wish existed, and the idea of “the book club book.”

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV and Desmond Tutu, translated by Douglas Carlton Abrams

Links, Articles, and Things

Oprah’s Book Club

Oprah's Book Club 2.0

Reese's Book Club

Buffs One Read

Rams Read

Canada Reads

One City One Book

One Book, One Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons 

Wanted: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the VPL's Book Choice

#NerdyGirlzBookClub 

Natalie’s Book Club

The Inner Lives of Book Clubs 

35 Recent* Essay Collections by BIPOC Authors

*Published within the last 2 years.

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays by Marcie Alvis-Walker

Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole

Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Black Nerd Problems by William Evans & Omar Holmon

Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories by Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World edited by by Darien Hsu Gee & Carla Crujido

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good 

Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen

Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore by Lawrence Jackson

Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy

Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk by John Brady McDonald

The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Mia Mercado

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney

People Change by Vivek Shraya

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Making a Scene by Constance Wu

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2023 Spring "Made in NY" Talks

Signature Series Returns to Highlight Career Pathways and Job Opportunities for New Yorkers in Entertainment Industry PBS NewsHour’s Charlayne Hunter-Gault to Moderate Panel featuring 2023 George Polk Award winners The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) announces six new “Made in NY” Talks for Spring 2023: The Show Must Go On: New Rules of Broadway How to Launch a Career in…

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault born 1942 

Born Due West, South Carolina In January 1961, following a two-year legal battle, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and fellow student Hamilton Holmes walked resolutely onto the University of Georgia campus as the first African American students to enroll at the all-white public university. Within forty-eight hours of their arrival, students opposed to the pair’s admission were rioting outside Hunter-Gault’s dormitory and hurling bricks and bottles through her window. Hunter-Gault and Holmes were suspended, ostensibly to ensure their safety. They soon returned under a new court order, “determined as ever to stay the course.”

Joseph Schwarz, an art professor who helped organize a faculty resolution to reinstate the suspended students, created this portrait. It captures the cool determination that enabled Hunter-Gault to challenge entrenched segregation and earn the journalism degree she fought to pursue at the University of Georgia. In 1988, twenty-five years after her graduation, Hunter-Gault became the first African American to deliver the school’s commencement address.

Joseph Schwarz (born 1938) Oil on canvas, 1961 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Ahmir-Khalib Thompson

December 18th 2021

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Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 1960s.

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Photobook lovers, rejoice! 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock! One of the great photography books of the 20th century and perhaps Parks’ photographic masterpiece, this expanded edition includes around 30 previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks’ original color transparencies; newly discovered descriptions Parks wrote for the photographs; a manuscript of film-developing instructions and captions Parks authored with Samuel F. Yette; previously published texts by the late art historian Maurice Berger and the esteemed journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; and a new essay by artist Dawoud Bey.⁠ ⁠ @dawoudbey writes: “In picture after picture … deliberate choices of tool, material and sensibility lend the Black Southern presence, often under siege, a sense of lives fully and expressively lived. We see Black subjects and spaces that are rendered with all of the qualities of expressivity that the medium is capable of in the hands of one seeking to use it as not only an information-gathering tool, and as a ‘weapon against all the things I dislike about America,’ as Parks once stated, but also as a transformative tool capable of reshaping the experience of the world, and the Southern Black peoples who lived in it, into photographs that are the equal of those made by others whose works are considered formative to the medium’s expressive potential.”⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Published by @steidlverlag & @gordonparksfoundation⁠ By Gordon Parks. Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr, Michal Raz-Russo. Text by Maurice Berger, Dawoud Bey, Charlayne Hunter-Gault.⁠ ⁠ #gordonparks #segregationstory #segregation #photobook #gordonparkssegregationstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIaEvzORtX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is a journalist and former foreign correspondent for NPR, and PBS.

She joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV, DC, and anchored the local evening news. She joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban Black community. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report as a correspondent, becoming The NewsHour’s national correspondent. She left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She worked in Johannesburg as NPR’s chief correspondent in Africa. She left her post as CNN’s Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, although she still regularly appeared on the station and others, as an Africa specialist.

During her association with The NewsHour, she won additional awards: two Emmys and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism for her work on Apartheid’s People, a NewsHour series on South Africa. She received the 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, the Sidney Hillman Award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, and two awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming. The University of Georgia Academic Building is named for her, along with Hamilton Holmes, as it is called the Holmes/Hunter Academic Building. She has been a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Carter Center.

She is the author of In My Place, a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Hostages to prejudice

“If people are informed they will do the right thing. Its when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.” —Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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From The Conversation: 

In Atlanta, a large crowd of demonstrators recently gathered at a statue of Henry W. Grady, the late 19th-century American journalist and orator who championed white supremacy. They chanted “We can’t breathe!” and stood on the statue’s terraced pedestal with signs reading “Black lynching must go!” and “Black lives matter.”

Grady is typically depicted as a brilliant editor and a “mild racist” who helped build modern Atlanta. My take is different. Grady used his newspaper as a political tool to help kill off Reconstruction’s biracial experiment in democracy. In its place, he helped create a profoundly anti-democratic, white supremacist social order that lasted in the South until the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Today’s young protesters are forcing a reappraisal of Grady’s legacy.

In December, Georgia State University’s student newspaper published an open letter to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, asking her to “tear down this statue” in reference to the Grady statue in the diverse university’s neighborhood.

In February, students at Henry W. Grady High School in Atlanta petitioned the school board to give the school a name that doesn’t “honor a segregationist.”

And last week, as protests against police brutality consumed the country, the student newspaper at the University of Georgia ran an op-ed calling for the school to rename its Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, where the motto is “We are Grady.” A petition demands that the Board of Regents “Rename Grady” to honor Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a journalist who helped integrate the university in 1961.

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35 Recent* Essay Collections by BIPOC Authors

*Published within the last 2 years.

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays by Marcie Alvis-Walker

Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole

Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Black Nerd Problems by William Evans & Omar Holmon

Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories by Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World edited by by Darien Hsu Gee & Carla Crujido

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good 

Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen

Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore by Lawrence Jackson

Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy

Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk by John Brady McDonald

The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Mia Mercado

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney

People Change by Vivek Shraya

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Making a Scene by Constance Wu