Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Keynote Speaker, Clough Spring Symposium

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Best-Selling Author & Award-Winning Journalist
in conversation with Angela Ards, Boston College
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 50 years in the industry, extending herwork at various times to all media. She is the author of four books, including an eBook called Corrective Rape, which details the devastating way some men in South Africa attempt to “correct” gay women’s sexual identity; To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement, is a historical narrative for young readers grade nine and up, published by The New York Timesand Roaring Brook Press. Her other two books are New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance, Oxford University Press and In My Place, a memoir of the Civil Rights Movement, fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia, in 1961, now a Vintage Press paperback. Her latest book, My People, a collection of her reporting and writing throughout her career, will be published by Harper Collins in late 2022.
Introduced by: Charlie Sennott, Boston College