good everybody. thank you so much for being with us. we are very honored to be with all of you tonight for this very special event, terry s books and more, the auburn avenue research library, african-american culture and welcome, charlayne hunter-gault in conversation with dr. beverly guy-sheftall for a celebration and discussion of my people. five decades of writing about black lives from the legendary emmy award winning journalist, a collection of groundbreaking reportage. excuse me, reportage from across five decades, which vividly chronicles the experience of black life america today. we welcome charlayne hunter-gault, who is an emmy award winning journalist. she began her career at the new yorker becoming the first black reporter for the talk of the town section. then from there, she joined the new york times, where she established harlem bureau, the first of its kind. she eventually joined pbs news as its first substitute anchor and correspondent. she s the author of fi
good everybody. thank you so much for being with us. we are very honored to be with all of you tonight for this very special event, terry s books and more, the auburn avenue research library, african-american culture and welcome, charlayne hunter-gault in conversation with dr. beverly guy-sheftall for a celebration and discussion of my people. five decades of writing about black lives from the legendary emmy award winning journalist, a collection of groundbreaking reportage. excuse me, reportage from across five decades, which vividly chronicles the experience of black life america today. we welcome charlayne hunter-gault, who is an emmy award winning journalist. she began her career at the new yorker becoming the first black reporter for the talk of the town section. then from there, she joined the new york times, where she established harlem bureau, the first of its kind. she eventually joined pbs news as its first substitute anchor and correspondent. she s the author of fi
Director Tracy Heather Strain brings Zora Neale Hurston s work to life in documentary. In the new PBS documentary Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming Space, director Tracy Heather Strain focuses on the writer s research on Black people in the South and the obstacles to her work being taken seriously.
On Jan. 17, “American Experience” on PBS illuminates Zora Neale Hurston’s pathbreaking role in anthropology, including film footage taken by Hurston and showing her at work.