Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People – Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

“I think that you’ll have taught our history as our armor, that Black people are more than the sum of our traumas or tragedies. That Black history is the way, and a path to look back. I think that we will remember how to be good to each other and how to speak well of each other. Those would be things that I would, if I were teaching 50 years from now and I were to say I was actually in the presence of this giant, I would say that she was so big, but she talked to everybody like they mattered and she gave people their flowers while they’re here.“

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Episode 72 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia.

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Lissa and Hunter-Gault talk about The Children’s March. Learn More.

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Brown v. Board of Education: Summary, Ruling & Impact

In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal, so long as the facilities for Black people and whites were equal. The ruling constitutionally sanctioned laws barring African Americans from sharing the same buses, schools and other public facilities as whites-known as “Jim Crow” laws -and established the “separate but equal” doctrine that would stand for the next six decades.

Ms Hunter-Gault talks about Valerie Boyd and her book Wrapped In Rainbows. Who is Valerie Boyd? Learn More.

Reading from My People, Ms Hunter-Gault shares a quote from Labyrinth of Life by Dr. Kenneth Edelin. Who is Dr. Kenneth Edelin? Learn More.

Kenneth C. Edelin, Doctor at Center of Landmark Abortion Case, Dies at 74 (Published 2013)

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, a Boston physician whose 1975 manslaughter conviction for performing a legal abortion was overturned on appeal in a landmark test of medical, legal, religious and political questions surrounding abortion in America, died on Monday in Sarasota, Fla.

In our first all virtual podcast: our guest arrives from her office in Sarasota, Florida; Lissa from her home office in Minneapolis; supported by Edie and Paul from iDream.tv studios; and Charlayne’s son Chuma from an undisclosed location.