Stories by Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya is a multi-media journalist and the host of Its Your Call
Posted on Sep 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Will voters of color ever take to any of the smaller political parties out there? Farai Chideya explores this in her new book, "Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters."
Posted on Jul 19, 2004, Source: The American Prospect
"To my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, no one from your campaign or the Democratic Party has made a serious connection to the hip-hop political movement."
Posted on May 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
On 'Friends,' hot tubs, and other random thoughts on a cultural moment that passed me by.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
From fingerprinting foreign visitors to grounding international flights, our nation is closing its doors in the name of security -- at what price?
Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Democrats have to reclaim the language of opportunity to appeal to the acquisitive hip-hop generation, who want immediate rewards for the fruits of their labor.
Posted on Nov 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
As a child, I dreamed of the boy with the afro who sang and spun on his heels like a miniature James Brown. I wish that boy had become a man.
Posted on Nov 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Jessica Lynch and Shoshanna Johnson underwent nearly identical ordeals in Iraq. But only the white soldier's story made the cover of Time magazine.
Posted on Nov 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Progressives/left/liberals/you-name-it must move beyond the politics of opposition, where what's bad for America is good for the President's foes.
Posted on Oct 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The most troubling aspect of the Boykin incident is not the general's religious warmongering, but the Bush administration's reaction to his comments.
Posted on Oct 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Before we get too comfortable bashing Limbaugh, we should question the negativity in our own lives.
Posted on Sep 29, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Let's make every day an emotional state of emergency.
Posted on Sep 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Africans are often cast as poor imbeciles in need of Western assistance. All that Africa needs to help itself is access to its own wealth.
Posted on Sep 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I'd like to propose a name for the next massive raid: Operation FUBAR. This is a military acronym for F*ed Up Beyond All Recognition, a phrase which certainly seems to fit our failed empire building exercise in the desert.
Posted on Aug 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Viruses and worms are turning the Web into the equivalent of a booby-trapped jungle. Enter at your own risk.
Posted on Aug 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
We'd all love to think that energy is unlimited; the East Coast outage tells us otherwise. Still, we might as well make the best of it ...
Posted on Aug 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Taking a page from Studs Turkel's oral history playbook, author Tricia Rose lets women speak for themselves in 'Longing to Tell.'
Posted on Jul 1, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The passing of America's longest-serving senator raises a whole heavenly host of questions.
Posted on Jun 24, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The first in a series on American values and principles explores examples past and present of the difficulty and rewards of being true.
Posted on Jun 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Today's resignations at the Times do nothing to answer the real question facing journalism: is it is still relevant to the lives of Americans?
Posted on May 29, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I was doin' my end-zone dance cause I figured I'm a millionaire now, when my roommate came home and harshed my high. He was, like, you're not gettin' any of this money, dude.
Posted on May 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The issue behind plagiarizing reporter Jayson Blair is as much about corporate culture as it is about race in America.
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Preemptive finger-printings, public video surveillance -- it's all part of the pattern of giving up rights for no reason at all.
Posted on Apr 24, 2003, Source: AlterNet
For people living in a war zone like New York City, the ultra-hip movie and its two forthcoming sequels can give answers and hope.
Posted on Apr 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Too many progressives look at money as inherently tainted. Yet learning how to manage money -- and sharing that information with others -- is transformative.
Posted on Apr 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
While a study shows watching TV makes us feel powerless, "intelligent agents" surfing the web are gaining real clout serving as de facto news editors for their friends and colleagues
Posted on Apr 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Both our new female war heroes come from hometowns fighting their own economic battles, where joining the military is both a first choice and a last resort.
Posted on Mar 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Countries are our parents, telling us who we are and what we can do. If we love our families, yet we question what America has become, where do we go?
Posted on Mar 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Instead of feeling comforted by America's military posturing, many of us feel neither safe nor free. It's time to retake, and remake, American democracy.
Posted on Mar 10, 2003, Source: Pop and Politics
Most folks I know who experiment with illicit drugs are no more screwed up than average. It’s easy to call addicts weak and lazy. It’s harder to look at the role drugs play in all our lives.
Posted on Mar 6, 2003, Source: Pop and Politics
Depression is the most common reaction among smart people to bad times. But, now it's time to wake up.
Posted on Feb 16, 2003, Source: Pop and Politics
Sen. Byrd questions why the Senate has been "ominously silent" about debating a war that could change America's moral standing in the world.
Posted on Jan 29, 2003, Source: Pop and Politics
Despite a couple of compassionate conservatisms, the State of the Union speech won't save Bush II from going down.
Posted on Dec 19, 2002, Source: Pop and Politics
Providing a positive reminder of how people of color helped build this nation is a fitting silver lining to this ugly incident.
Posted on Dec 17, 2002, Source: Pop and Politics
Hiroshima's peace museum is a reminder of what the endgame of war might mean.
Posted on Nov 8, 2002, Source: Pop and Politics
Meshell Ndegeocello directs some of the country's most talented musicians in mixing music with message to fight AIDS.
Posted on Nov 4, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service
This whole country seems to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, tracking terror-sprees on television and watching friends and family lose jobs.
Posted on Oct 3, 2002, Source: Pop and Politics
The White House tells us to ignore the country's economic crisis in the name of patriotism. At the same time, it refuses to admit its own complicity in the decline of our economy.
Posted on Sep 18, 2002, Source: Pop and Politics
While we're more than happy to talk about welfare queens and poverty pimps, we don't seem to hear the vast sucking sound of white-collar criminals hoovering out our economy.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001, Source: Pop and Politics
Censorship creates strange bedfellows. I've been hating on Eminem for a long time, but when his enemy is the FCC, I have to support him.
Posted on May 1, 2001, Source: Pop and Politics
Throughout this decades-long drug war, Americans have been willing to accept massive collateral damage in poor, black and urban communities. Now, other Americans are feeling pressure as well.
