Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Published: May 20, 2023, 12:32 p.m.

In 1958, with Hamilton Holmes, she desegregated the University of Georgia and went on to a distinguished career in journalism. Her early inspiration? Brenda Starr. \u201cI read about her in the comic strips in my grandmother\u2019s newspaper; she read three newspapers a day.\u201d