From Closed Doors to Open Roads: A Journalist's Journey
Keynote speaker Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the world's most distinguished journalists, describes how she grew up in a segregated society and what enabled her to successfully challenge the decades-old Southern laws that were created to keep her and all black people "in their place." She goes on to trace fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming "Brenda Starr" to being Brenda and beyond and – some years after her successful career in magazines, newspapers, and television – departing to South Africa to chronicle the familiar yet unique end of segregation there. And finally, she describes why she is still out there, attempting to bring "new news" to people the world over, through all the media she has mastered – including print, radio, television and the blogosphere.
From Jim Crow America to Apartheid South Africa & Beyond: An Activist Journalist's Journey
Charlayne Hunter-Gault describes her historic entry into the University of Georgia as its first black woman student and the road she took through Jim Crow South to get there. She chronicles her rise from there to the top of her profession and the stories she covered along the way. This includes South Africa and its "Jim Crow" like system of apartheid, the victory of its people over the system, and where that has taken them and the continent.
The New Face of AIDS: Africa's Women & Girls
Charlayne Hunter-Gault has covered the AIDS story on the continent for the past 10 years and sees how the pandemic is now claiming women and girls as the growing group of infected with HIV infection. On average, one in three pregnant women in South Africa is HIV positive. Why is this happening and what, if anything, can be done about it?
Africa Rising: A Continent in Motion
Africa today stands poised to take control of its own destiny--one of the most exciting developments since the end of colonialism. Can Africa heal itself, by itself? What will it take? And what are the consequences of failure? Charlayne Hunter-Gault will talk about the challenges facing Africa and tell why they are America's challenges too.
Africa's Women on the Move
Charlayne Hunter-Gault takes a look at the advances of the last Africans in taking their place in helping to build new societies on the continent.
Revolutions I Have Known and Loved
