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          Charlayne Hunter-Gault

          American journalist

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

          Alberta Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, ) is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent.

        1. Hunter-Gault left the New York Times in to join PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer Report, becoming national correspondent and filling in as anchor when the program.
        2. She joined NPR in as chief correspondent in Africa.
        3. Charlayne is currently a special Africa correspondent for NPR and is completing a book, "New News Out of Africa," expected to come out in June According.
        4. Recorded October 24, In conversation with Dorothy Roberts Referred to by Jelani Cobb as “a Dean of American journalism,” Charlayne.

          5. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia.[2]

          Early life

          Alberta Charlayne Hunter was born in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Col.

          Charles Shepherd Henry Hunter, Jr., U.S. Army, a regimental chaplain, and his wife, the former Althea Ruth Brown.[3][4] She became interested in journalism at the age of 12 after reading the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.[2]

          In 1955, one year after the Brown v.

          Board of Education ruling, Hunter was in eighth grade and was the only black student at an Army school in Alaska, where her father was stationed. Her parents divorced after spending the year in Alaska, and Hunte