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The Ford Foundation hosted a conference at the Charles Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit on the state of race relations and the media, with a focus on the 1968 Kerner Comm…

Panelists talked about black writers in the digital age. Panelists included author and journalist Farai Chideya; Akiba Solomon, editorial director of Colorlines; poet Tai Allen; Johnny Templ…

Panelists talked about media coverage of racial issues. Topics included changing journalistic and U.S. racial demographics; the controversy surrounding Philadelphia Magazine’s cover story, “…

Current and former members of Congress, journalists, and policy experts participated in a role-playing simulation. They responded to hypothetical scenarios related to the global economy, seq…

Panelists discussed the influence of Super PACs and non-profit political spending in the 2012 election. Topics included the differences between Super PACSs and 501(c)4 organizations, disclos…

Panelists talked about race and the 2012 presidential campaign. Some of the topics included voter identification laws, the black vote, and voter ID laws, President Obama’s and Republican pre…

Farai Chideya talked about her book Kiss the Sky: A Novel (Atria; May 12, 2009). She was interviewed at the 32nd Annual National Press Club Book Fair and Authors' Night, a fundraiser for the…

Author Farai Chideya talked about her book, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, published by Soft Skull Press. She urged people to not only concern themselves with the 2004 pres…

As a part of the legislative conference’s Author Pavilion, Farai Chideya spoke about her book, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, published by Soft Skull Press. She discussed th…

Democratic presidential candidates debated one another on a number of issues including military operations in Iraq, the state of the economy, issues of concern to the African-American commun…

Panel Participants talked about the conservative influence on various media outlets. Among the topics they addressed were media bias, media ownership, and a recent decision by the Federal Co…

In a forum on the state of black America designed to present a public think tank that will analyze the critical challenges facing the African-American community, panelists talked about black…

Panelists talked about the influence of hip-hop music on literature as well as the spoken and written word. Among the topics they addressed were the amount of profanity and violence in the m…

Participants spoke about issues facing the African-American community and how Republican and Democratic Party stances on the issues would affect their vote. Among the issues they addressed w…

The Oxygen Cable and On-Line hosted a town hall meeting in which Vice President Gore answered questions from the studio audience and viewer questions sent by electronic mail. Among the issue…

The panelists discussed media coverage of race issues and racial politics, particularly affirmative action. They talked about California’s Proposition 200 that would have banned preferences …

Farai Chideya talked about her book, "The Color of Our Future: Our Multiracial Future", published by William Morrow & Company. The book describes, through interviews from across the U.S., ho…

Ms. Chideya spoke about the bidirectional relationship between images and reality of African American women’s lives in the United States. She said that images both reflect and shape cultural…

Panelists talked about the impact online services and online journalism will play in the 1998 elections. This was part of a seminar on journalism and the Internet hosted by the Freedom Forum…

Panelists talked about the current state of the media and the blurring of lines between politically oriented magazines and more commercial magazines. They also discussed the onslaught of inf…