As a groundbreaking Black journalist, Charlayne Hunter-Gault has both made and chronicled history. And history, she says, repeats itself
harlayne Hunter-Gault, 80, has both made and chronicled history in real time. After becoming the first Black woman to—establishing the paper’s Harlem bureau—before becoming NPR’s chief Africa correspondent. Among her many other accomplishments, she was also the first Black staff writer atand her efforts to capture the American story have netted awards including a pair of Emmys and a Peabody.
TIME: What made you want to put together a collection of your reported work at this particular moment in time? The book includes a story about a community-dispute center in Harlem, one about parents looking for a way to teach their children a more accurate version of history, one about the late Congressman John Lewis when he was a young voting-rights activist, another about policing during periods of increased crime—do you feel those stories include themes on the issues of the moment requiring more thought?Ha! I probably should not have phrased my question that way.
Another thing that stood out as I was reading through the stories in the book is that there are quite a few profiles of people who, at the time you wrote about them, did not yet have massive national stature. One of them was about the future Congressman John Lewis, the impact of the 1964 Voting Rights Act, and what he expected to come from his work registering Black voters in Georgia.
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