Since beginning her career in journalism and broadcasting, Farai Chideya has focused on finding out the truth about what young American adults — especially those of color — believe and value.
In an Assembly Series lecture Oct. 27, she will share her thoughts and discuss what young Americans can do to help remedy some of society’s ills.
Starting at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel, her talk is titled the same as her most recent book: “Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters.”
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 1990-94, she was a writer for Newsweek, and the magazine named her to its “Century Club” of 100 people to watch. In September 2003, she moderated the third Democratic debate for FOX News.
For the past several years, she has contributed to popandpolitics.com, an online journal of news and opinions 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.
Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and Time, Spin, Vibe, O, Mademoiselle and Essence magazines.
She has published three books: Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans, (1995); The Color of Our Future (1999); and Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters (2004), 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.”
Assembly Series lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, go online to assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call 935-4620.