Political commentator Farai Chideya to discuss ways to reach out to the 100 million ‘missing voters’

Since beginning her career in journalism and broadcasting, Farai Chedeya has focused on finding out the truth about what young American adults — especially those of color — believe and value, and she will share those thoughts as well as discuss what young Americans can do to help remedy some of society’s ills, for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Oct. 27. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled the same as her most recent book, “Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters.”

Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya

Chideya has contributed political analysis for CNN, MTV, BET, CBS and ABC. In 1996 she covered politics and the presidential election for the New York Daily News. From 1990 to 1994, she was a writer for Newsweek. (The magazine also named her to its “Century Club” of 100 people to watch.) In Sept. 2003, she moderated the third Democratic Debate for Fox News. For the last several years, she has contributed to PopandPolitics.com, an online journal of news and opinion for a diverse and international audience, which she founded and for which she received a MOBE IT innovator award. In addition, Chideya writes a syndicated political column for the Los Angeles Times.

Chideya’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, Time magazine, Spin, Vibe, O, Mademoiselle and Essence. In addition, she has published three books: Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans, published in 1995; The Color of Our Future, published in 1999; and in 2004, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, which has been called by Amazon.com a provocative book that “looks at and beyond the daily political struggles to the heart of a nation at war with itself.”

For more information, check the Web site at http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu/ or call 314-935-4620.