Writers on Writing Interview
with Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an Emmy-winning journalist who worked at the New Yorker and New York Times and as an anchor for PBS NewsHour for more than five decades. Greene and Hunter-Gault discuss her lifetime work of reporting on subjects such as the Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter, and Apartheid movements chronicled in her book, My People, Five Decade of Writing About Black Lives (Harper Collins, 2022). A major focus of the discussion is the role of journalists, educators, and civil rights leaders in the past and in this current political climate.