News Release

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September 20, 2005

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CNN reporter Charlayne Hunter-Gault will be the keynote speaker at Boise State’s 2006 Martin Luther King Jr./Human Rights Celebration. Hunter-Gault will speak at 8 p.m. Jan. 20 in the Student Union Jordan Ballroom. Her speech is titled, “Making a Global Dream: From Jim Crow America to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond.”

Hunter-Gault is CNN’s Johannesburg Bureau chief and correspondent. She joined CNN in 1999 from NPR, where she worked as the network’s chief correspondent in Africa. She joined NPR in 1997 after 20 years with PBS, where she was a national correspondent on “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” During that time she also anchored the award-winning television newsmagazine “Rights and Wrongs,” which focused on human rights.

She began her career as a reporter for The New Yorker, then worked as a local news anchor in Washington, D.C. She also worked at the New York Times for 10 years, including two years as Harlem Bureau chief.

Hunter-Gault’s awards include two Emmy awards and two Peabody awards, Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Sidney Hillman Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, and many others.

She also is the author of “In My Place,” a memoir of her role in the civil rights movement as the first black woman admitted to the University of Georgia. She also holds more than two dozen honorary degrees.

Contact: Rodney Curley, Student Activities, (208)†426-1242, rodneycurley@boisestate.edu

Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Relations, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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