Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya (b. July 26, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland) (Template:PronEng), a novelist, journalist and radio host who's worked in every form of journalistic media. She was the host of the National Public Radio radio program News & Notes until her final broadcast on the program on January 16, 2009.[1] News & Notes itself will cease broadcasting on March 20, 2009[2] Previously she worked for Newsweek magazine, MTV News, CNN, ABC News, and the Oxygen Network. She made a name for herself as a political analyst and still appears on shows like HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Chideya was also one of the earliest pop culture bloggers, founding PopandPolitics.com in 1995. The site continues as a student-run blog and training program at the University of Southern California.
She has written three non-fiction books: "Don't Believe the Hype"; "The Color of Our Future"; and "Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters."
Her first novel, "Kiss the Sky," is a departure from her previous works on race and politics. It will be published in May 2009 by Atria books, and follows a black female rock musician making a comeback in New York. The book is rooted in the ethos of the Black Rock movement and the New York club scene. The book takes place in the months before 9/11.
Her mother is from Baltimore and her father is from Zimbabwe.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans (1995)
- The Color of Our Future (1999)
- "Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters." (2004)
- "Kiss the Sky" (forthcoming, 2009)
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