Farai Chideya

Podcast Host

One with Farai

Farai Chideya brings the human experience alive in media, working in print, television, radio and digital media.

Farai Chideya brings the human experience alive in media. A fiction and non-fiction author, reporter, and broadcaster, she has interviewed billionaires and politicians; white supremacists and murderers. She believes that embracing our shared humanity is crucial to journalism. A former on-air reporter and host for ABC News, CNN, and NPR, Chideya produces and hosts the PRI podcast One with Farai.

Farai has combined media, technology, and socio-political analysis during her 20-year career as an award-winning author, journalist, professor, and lecturer. She is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She was also a spring 2012 fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. She frequently appears on public radio and cable television, speaking about issues including the labor economy, race, politics, and culture.

Chideya's PRl podcast, One with Farai is a deep dive into the personal and mission-driven concerns of world changers in the US and abroad. In 2010, Chideya produced multimedia political specials about the midterm elections in partnership with WNYC. Chideya originally launched PopandPolitics.com as a blog in 1995.

From 2006 to early 2009, Chideya hosted NPR’s News and Notes. She has been a reporter for ABC News, a political analyst for CNN, a host for the Oxygen Network, and continues to appear on television as a cultural commentator. She and the teams she has worked with have won awards including a National Education Reporting Award, a North Star News Prize, and a special award from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association for coverage of AIDS. Earlier in her career she worked for Newsweek, MTV News, CNN, and ABC News.

Chideya has written three nonfiction books: Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters; The Color of Our Future; and Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans. Her novel Kiss the Sky (Atria Books) was released in hardcover May 2009 and paperback May 2010. All are taught on college campuses across the country in subjects from ethnic studies to pop culture. She was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Harvard University Magna Cum Laude in 1990.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, at left, shares the stage with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg following Harris' address at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California on February 10, 2015.

Ten ways women think outside the box

Women often have to learn their life lessons the hard way, thanks to gender bias, but those lessons often go far beyond gender issues. Here are 10 of the most important lessons that women have shared with Farai Chideya, the host of the One With Farai podcast from PRI.

Ten ways women think outside the box
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Gloria Steinem continues to fight for equality for all women

Gloria Steinem continues to fight for equality for all women
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Perry criticized over offensively named hunting ground

Perry criticized over offensively named hunting ground
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Obama loses black voters as approval rating slips

Obama loses black voters as approval rating slips
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Takeouts: breaking up banks, baseball awards, The Value

Takeouts: breaking up banks, baseball awards, The Value
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Jobs, the Minimum Wage, and Unemployment Insurance

The Dow posted its highest closing since last November, and the minimum wage goes up from $6.25 to $7.25. Joining The Takeaway to discuss this is University of Maryland business professor Peter Morici and New York Times reporter Jason DeParle.

Jobs, the Minimum Wage, and Unemployment Insurance
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Just for Laughs: Montreal's Comedy Festival

Montreal, Canada, hosts the annual ?Just For Laughs' festival this weekend. Joining The Takeaway to talk about the festival is Steve Heisler, a contributor to The Onion, and Andy Kindler, a writer and comedian and a veteran of the festival.

Just for Laughs: Montreal's Comedy Festival
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Keeping Score with the Week's News

Joining The Takeaway to discuss Obama selling his health care plan, Clinton taking aim at North Korea, and a Harvard professor facing down police is New York Times editor Marcus Mabry and New America Foundation fellow Reihan Salam.

Keeping Score with the Week's News
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Baseball Hall of Fame Inducation at Cooperstown

This weekend, Cooperstown holds its induction ceremony for the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Takeaway talks with Dave Zirin, who writes about sports for The Nation and is author of ?A People's History of Sports in the United States.'

Baseball Hall of Fame Inducation at Cooperstown
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Sarah Palin: Former Governor, About-To-Be-Author

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin officially hands over power to Sean Parnell on Sunday. Joining The Takeaway to talk about Palin's legacy and forthcoming autobiography are Alaska Public Radio reporter Libby Casey and former Sentinal editor Bernadette Malone.

Sarah Palin: Former Governor, About-To-Be-Author
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Hyundai Cashes in with the Clunkers Program

'Cash for Clunkers' allows Americans to trade in cars with bad gas mileage for money towards fuel efficient cars. The Takeaway talks to Oklahoma City resident Mary Dubois, Los Angeles Times auto critic Dan Neil, and Hyundai factory worker Rick Halstead.

Hyundai Cashes in with the Clunkers Program
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Real-life Sopranos: NJ's International Conspiracy

A 10-year federal probe uncovered an international conspiracy involving money laundering, corruption of local and state governments and synagogues in New Jersey. Joining The Takeaway is Bob Ingle, Trenton bureau chief for Gannet news service.

Real-life Sopranos: NJ's International Conspiracy
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Movies: Summer's Anti-Blockbusters

The Takeaway talks to A. O. Scott, film critic for The New York Times, and Wesley Morris, film critic for the Boston Globe, about the anti-blockbuster movies of the summer: the British film ?In the Loop' and ?A Woman in Berlin.'

Movies: Summer's Anti-Blockbusters
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The Henry Louis Gates Jr Case: Massachusetts's View

African American scholar Henry Louis Gates was arrested for breaking into his own home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. To find out how this story is playing locally, The Takeaway turns to Joe Sciacca of the Boston Herald and commentator Callie Crossley.

The Henry Louis Gates Jr Case: Massachusetts's View
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Calling All Guinea Pigs: Volunteer for the H1N1 Trials

The U.S. government is seeking thousands of volunteers for the first clinical trials of an H1N1 flu vaccine. The Takeaway talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which will oversee the trials.

Calling All Guinea Pigs: Volunteer for the H1N1 Trials