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Stories by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Today's Horrors Are Yesterday's Repeats

June 22, 2017
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Sometimes I have to abandon my journalistic training and resort to cliches — such as what goes around, comes around. From a recent memorial service in the nation’s troubled capital to a...

Engagement Helps Forge Path Toward Justice

August 4, 2016
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

As headline after headline tells of a nation torn by race and the stories that follow give vent to anger of  “ambient terror,” as New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote, I am...

A Love Affair That Lasted for 56 Years

September 19, 2013
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

When Lucy Durr was a high school junior in Montgomery, Ala., her older first cousin, John, invited her to a party. There John introduced Lucy to his good friend Sheldon Hackney, a college junior....

Fifty Years Later, Birmingham Marches Still Shock and Sadden

May 9, 2013
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

April was a cruel month for black people in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. So was May, and the months that followed, culminating in the explosion of a bomb in a church that September that killed four...

Oak Bluffs, More Than a Region in My Mind

July 5, 2012
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Throughout my high school years in Atlanta, Ga., in the 1950s, Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard was a region in my mind. I can still remember the image I had of the Island back then — an...

Civil Rights History Must Be Taught

April 26, 2012
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Recently during a meeting with high school seniors to talk about the civil rights movement, I learned their graduation was on May 17. “Wow,” I exclaimed. “How wonderful to be...

A Year After the Obama Inauguration: Addressing Race

January 15, 2010
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Editor’s Note: Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, elected on a platform of change, on Jan. 20, 2009. He took the oath to preserve, protect and defend the...

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