How We Save Our Body Politic

Farai Chideya
Digital Diplomacy
Published in
20 min readAug 24, 2020

Reflections from a Black Female Journalist on America at the Precipice

There is beauty amid the storms. Be well and know you are loved.

Hello friends:

I offered a version of these remarks to a powerful civic group recently. As part of my discourse on America in peril, I explained how hard it has been to be a Black female journalist. This may be the most personal and emotionally vulnerable writing I’ve shared publicly in my life. After all, I wanted to…

Farai Chideya
Digital Diplomacy

Radio show/podcast “Our Body Politic” @ farai.com/our-body-politic. Covered every Presidential election 1996–2020. Books include “The Episodic Career.”