FARAI CHIDEYA
Katrina: Long-term Lessons for Black Empowerment
Moderated by Christopher M. Rabb, Founder/Chief Evangelist, Afro-Netizen
DATE: Thursday, October 20, 2005
TIME: 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: : International House, Assembly Hall 1414 East 59th Street
Free and open to the public. Book signing and reception to follow.
Farai Chideya, correspondent and substitute host for NPR’s News & Notes with Ed Gordon, is an award- multi-media journalist who has worked in print, television, radio, and online. Chideya is currently a Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She is the founder of PopandPolitics.com.
Her stereotype-shattering 1995 book, Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans (Plume Penguin), is now in its eighth printing. The Color of Our Future (William Murrow, 1999), explores the changing racial identities of America’s teens, and her travels from the Crow reservation in Montana to a ninety-nine percent white Indiana town to South Central Los Angeles. The Color of Our Future was named one of the best books for teens by the New York Public Library. Chideya’s most recent book, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters (Soft Skull, 2004), shows why half of Americans are cut out of the political system—and what they can do about it.
Chideya has been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program “Pure Oxygen” on the Oxygen women’s channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. In 1997, Newsweek named her to its “Century Club” of 100 people to watch. She has published articles in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Time, Spin, Vibe, O, The California Journal, Mademoiselle, and Essence. Awards for her writing and broadcast work include a 2004 “Young Lion” Award from the Black Entertainment and Telecommunications Association (BETA), a GLAAD Award for the Spin article “Hip Hop’s Black Eye,” and a National Education Reporting Award for work at Newsweek.
For additional information contact the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at (773) 702-8063 or csrpc@uchicago.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact the International House Office of Programs and Special Events in advance at 773.753.2274 or e-mail i-house-programs@uchicago.edu.
