The Red and Black

Emmy award-winning reporter Michel McQueen will deliver the 14th annual Hunter-Holmes lecture Thursday, joining a distinguished list of former lecturers including Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young.

McQueen, Washington D.C. correspondent for "ABC News Nightline," has contributed to a number of programs and series that have received critical acclaim, including a report in the series "America in Black and White," which took a candid look into racial stereotyping in news coverage. The report was nominated for an Emmy.

While reporting for ABC's "Day One" news magazine, McQueen won an Emmy for a segment on the international campaign to ban the use of landmines.

"This lecture and its speakers are not only known at the University, but across the nation," said Matthew Winston of University Communications.

The lecture is named after Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first African-American students to attend the University.

The two were admitted by a court order in 1961 and graduated two years later.

Holmes went on to become the associate dean of Emory University's School Medicine and chief of orthopedic surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Hunter-Gault now is South African correspondent for National Public Radio and has won a Peabody Award for her coverage of apartheid there.

- Russ Henderson

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