Thu, 17 July 2008  Welcome to Show #39-08 Thanks for listening everybody. My email addresses: sunny_james@verizon.net. Also you can directly download this show from my website, www.sunnyjames.net OR www.thesunnyjamesshow.net. And of course, you can find The Sunny James Show on iTunes News and All the Other Stuff for #39-08 -- Great email from Dave No Last Name, thank you. -- What do crayons, markers, pencils and backpacks have to do with the the orange Paypal button at sunnyjames.net? Here's the deal . . . with two kids, it’s about this time of year that I start to think about September and the kids going back to school. Invariably, I think about my own upbringing and how stressed out my mother seemed at the prospect of having to buy school supplies for me. She was a single mother all of my school aged life. And it wasn’t just the pencils and notebook paper but the new coat or shoes and socks that was needed. When I was married and a stay at home mother, I took pleasure in being able to buy sufficient, no, probably an excess of school supplies and my children will tell you to this day about my fondness for buying them new underwear and socks for back to school. And since I’ve been divorced, more times than not I’ve felt some of what my own mother must of felt as she tried to provide all that I needed to go to school, warm and equipped with the tools to learn. I know News Items (14:34) -- Obama Takes the Show Around the Globe Christian Science Monitor -- Race Still the Great Divide The New York Times -- McCain in the Company of Lions & Tigers, Oh, my The Los Angeles Times -- The UK's Problems Sound Alot Like Ours The Guardian -- Generations Clash The Boston Globe and The New Yorker Cartoon Non-issue (my 2 cents) -- Miami Taxpayers Shouldn't Take it Anymore The Christian Science Monitor -- Doctors Hearts in Hand, An Apology from the AMA The Washington Post -- South Carolina is So Gay and Somebody is in So Much Trouble Newsweek -- What Do Volkswagen and U.S. Steel Have in Common? Slave Labor, of course Newsweek (57:42) -- For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Brook Benton and Toots Theilman (59:40) -- Sunny's Good Word - veneration \ve-nə-rā-shən\ (59:58) Where In the World is . . . Lake Winnipesaukee? And one more time for good measure, Washington DC, the taxation without representation capital of the United States See ya next time,Sunny Comments[0] |
Wed, 25 June 2008  June 25th Update:
More opinion about my appearance at the Talkers Magazine New Media
Seminar and the Talk Radio & Race panel. The woman who wrote the
piece is a right leaning talk show host who totally missed the point
about how advertising dollars are spent or rather not spent on Black or
urban radio. That point was made clearly by myself and several
other panelist. Black radio wouldn't exist if it were not making somebody some money. But, while Black folks spend billions of dollars as consumers, urban radio doesn't garner the kind of quality advertising buys that other radio formats do. When the advertisers stop seeing Black, perhaps urban and talk radio can see more green. To suggest that I was taking a swipe at Talkers Magazine and the New Media Seminar is ludicrous. I was a guest of Michael Harrison and being a properly brought up child, I learned early on not insult my host. And in this instance, I certainly had no reason to. What the writer ignored, was that I said, if you walk through the lobby of the convention center, the only faces on the cardboard cutouts of the sponsored or syndicated on-air talent were white faces. That was just a fact. In addition, you could count on one hand the number of African-American women in attendance. I know because I made a point of meeting each of them. Black radio has always had an element of social consciousness about it. The issues haven't changed much, but the delivery system has. Syndicated radio has changed how, not just the Black community, but all communities get its news and information. BET failed at providing news to the Black community, NPR has taken several stabs at news delivered by a Black hosts but not necessarily Black news. There was Ed Gordon, then Tavis Smiley, who left NPR and is still as popular as ever and now Michel Martin's Tell Me More. I wish for the day when there is no such thing as "Black talk radio." I hope I can provide that kind of show for a radio station here in the Nation's Capital and even land my own syndication deal where I can be heard across the country. But let's be real, there are issues for us, about us, caused by us and imposed on us that don't get addressed on mainstream talk radio but should. My own show covers a wide range of issues that are not necessarily about the Black and minority communities but affect us profoundly and to a greater degree than the rest of the population. I look forward to the day when talk radio conversation and discussion about black people or issues does not become a commentary on "nappy headed hoes." Sunny Category: Show Notes (what the hell am I doing) -- posted at: 10:21 AM Comments[0] |
Tue, 17 June 2008  Welcome to Show #38-08 Thanks for listening everybody.My email addresses: sunny_james@verizon.net or thesunnyjamesshow@verizon.net. Also you can directly download this show from my website, www.sunnyjames.net OR www.thesunnyjamesshow.net. And of course, you can find The Sunny James Show on iTunes News and All the Other Stuff for #38-08 -- One more thank you to mykinkycreed.com -- Rant. Women and their underwear -- Sunny does NY in June--Absolute Perfection! The Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar. Let's just say Al Sharpton was a no show and I wasn't (I kept his seat warm) -- I Dare You . . . News Items (14:30) -- Obama's fightthesmears.com Boston Globe -- Republican Hatchet Man? The First Post -- It's Swift-Boat Time TIME -- Obama on the Cosby Bandwagon Chicago Sun Times -- Clinton & Obama Did a Good Thing The Christian Science Monitor -- America At It's Best--I Can Only Hope Economist -- The War for the White House Economist -- Women Voters Do It Any Way They Want Los Angeles Times -- Suburban Nightmares, Urban Dreams CNN.com -- Kids and Obesity, Look to the Parents TIME (59:43) --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Girls in Their Summer Clothes by Bruce Springsteen (take that Miss Mozell) (1:00:10)
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Sat, 17 May 2008 Welcome to Show #37-08 Thanks for listening everybody.My email addresses: sunny_james@verizon.net or thesunnyjamesshow@verizon.net. Also you can directly download this show from my website, www.sunnyjames.net OR www.thesunnyjamesshow.net. And of course, you can find me on iTunes now as The Sunny James Show News and All the Other Stuff for #37-08 -- Listener email and thank yous especially to mykinkycreed.com and an apology to a listener who got TMI. -- Rant. Make that a double cheeseburger and a prom dress to go or parents need to learn to say "NO" -- Sunny does NY in June News Items (15:10) -- Obama Prepares for Republican Scare Tactics. He Ain't Afraid of No Ghost Newsweek -- Taking Aim at First Ladies in Waiting Financial Times -- Red or Blue, The South Rethinks Its Allegiance The New York Times -- We Shall Overcome? Not Yet The Economist (you must read this) -- It's a Shrink Rapped Shame The Economist -- Skip the Grocery Store and Hit the Backyard Garden The Christian Science Monitor -- Cynthia Tucker's Take on the Hip-hop Lie Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Doing It Right, Education in Nassau County, New York The New York Times -- Getting it Wrong, Chicago's Gang and Gun Violence The Economist -- Making it Work, Chicago's Urban Prep and Renaissance Schools Fund The Economist -- Near Death Changes Doctor's Paradigm, Tanzania Reaps the Benefits San Francisco Chronicle -- Women Shine in Rwanda The Washington Post (59:00) On the Street - For the Littlest Obamas--Public or Private? (1:05:50) --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . The Roots' Rising Down Makes Hip-hop A Pleasure Again (1:07:00)
-- Sunny's Good Word - Appeasement (1:07:25) -- Where In the World is . . . Mount Kilimanjaro? And one more time for good measure, Washington DC, the taxation without representation capital of the United States See ya next time, Sunny Comments[0] |
Wed, 2 April 2008  Welcome to Show #36-08 Thanks for listening everybody.My new email address: sunny_james@verizon.net or the old address still works, theabw@verizon.net Also you can directly download this show from www.sunnyjames.net OR www.theabw.net And of course, you can find me on iTunes now as The Sunny James Show News and All the Other Stuff for #36-08 -- Many Thanks to Contributors and a Recap of The Talk Radio Seminar. This VIDEO link is of the Q & A portion of the Talking Heads Panel and my question to Rev. Al Sharpton regarding the civil rights "old guard" support of Barack Obama and Rev. Sharpton's answer. George Stephanopoulos is the panel moderator. The debate and dialog among the various hosts after my question is great to watch. This video clip plays on Windows Media Center, WinDVD and various other programs. -- 2005-2008, RIP Angry Black Woman and Why -- Sunny James on Sinclair Broadcasting for the 40th Anniversary of the Slaying of Martin Luther King, Jr.(Select "40 Years Later" from the video list) -- Just in case you missed it--I can't have that--here's the link to my most recent appearance on WWWT-FM here in the Nation's Capital March 19. -- Join the facebook group "I Support The Sunny James Show." News Items (21:14) -- Iraq War Kills Hope for Ohio Soldier. LA Times -- "Far Wright," Couldn't Have Said it Better Myself The New Republic -- Alice Walker on Obama, How Familiar, How Poetic Guardian -- Congressman Emanuel Cleaver Talks Crazy North of the Boarder. What an Awful Shade of Green. -- The Ghosts of Memphis. 40 Years Later, Would He Be Proud, Does it Matter? -- 20 Lives Gone Too Soon, Chicago's Student Bloodbath, -- News Orleans' Strange Fruit -- Economist's Bad News From California--Latino Families Becoming Like Black Families -- Chris Rock on the Cover of Rolling Stone (54:37) On the Street - Thick? (1:05:29) --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Van Morrison's "I'll Be Your Lover Too" (1:06:23) -- Where In the World is . . . Puget Sound? And one more time for good measure, Washington DC, the taxation without representation capital of the United States (1:06:10) -- Sunny's Good Word - distaff See ya next time,Sunny Comments[0] |
Fri, 28 March 2008 Hello Everybody,This is NOT an edition of The Angry Black Woman Show with Sunny James. This is a March 19 guest appearance on WWWT-FM in Washington DC. It was a great opportunity to talk about Barack Obama's speech on race and politics. This was my 4th appearance. And yes, it runs WITHOUT commercials! Yeah! Please be sure to listen to the next show. I have lots to share with you including the reasons for changing the name of the show, thank yous, video from the Talk Radio Seminar, which I couldn't have attended without the help from listeners. And of course, another edition of The Sunny James Show. See ya next time, Sunny Comments[0] |
Wed, 20 February 2008  Welcome to Show #35-08 Thanks for listening everybody.My new email address: theabw@verizon.net Also you can directly download this show from www.sunnyjames.net OR www.theabw.net OR www.theangryblackwoman.net And of course, you can find me on iTunes News and All the Other Stuff for #35-08 -- Sunny James on FOX's American Crossroads Black and White -- Once again links to appearances on Tony Kornheiser's show on WWWT-FM here in the Nation's Capital. December 14 and December 21 -- You Know You Want to Listen, The Extended Play Version, Sunny on 3WT-FM, The David Burd & Jessica Doyle Show -- Join the facebook group "I Support Sunny James and the Angry Black Woman Show." Thanks again Daphnee! -- February Doldrums?--Hardly. Valentine's Day, the Potomac Primary, El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Remembered on February 21, Black History Month -- Just click the button--I meant it. No, I need it! Please. -- It's Not Just About the White House. Think Supreme Court and The Case No One is Talking About -- A Real Wife, Every Woman Needs One, Obama's Got One -- Gender Stereotypes. You Bet -- Racial Progress? See Following Article -- Deadly Delay. Minorities Late Diagnoses -- IRS Helps Illegals. Who Knew? -- Whose Afraid of Head Scarves? -- Our, All Children Deserve Better -- Australia Gets the Apology Right -- The New Yorker's The Color of Politics. Yes There are Other Black Politicians Besides Obama. Can You Say Cory Booker? -- National Geographic Does the Black Pharaohs -- Oscar May for Ruby Dee --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . "My Way" by Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone -- Where In the World is . . . Victoria Lake And one more time for good measure, Washington DC, the taxation without representation capital of the United States -- Sunny's Good Word - eudaimonism See ya next time,Sunny Comments[0] |
Thu, 31 January 2008 Hello Everybody,This is NOT an edition of The Angry Black Woman Show with Sunny James. This is a recent guest appearance on WWWT-FM in Washington DC. It was a great opportunity to talk about race, politics, Obama and Clinton, gender, the Missing White Woman Syndrome and other fun stuff. This was my third appearance; I think they like me! Yes, it runs a bit long, with commercials. I'll be visiting you again soon with another edition of The Angry Black Woman Show. See ya next time, Sunny Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 January 2008  Welcome to Show #34-08 Thanks for listening everybody.Sunny's new email address: theabw@verizon.net Also you can directly download this show from www.sunnyjames.net OR www.theabw.net OR www.theangryblackwoman.net And of course, you can find me on iTunes Last minute lesson to be learned from the New Hampshire primary--If you cry they will come! We haven't come a long way, baby!? If you'd like to read one of the articles from the show, please drop me an email, at least for the next several days. A software problem should be corrected soon. News and All the Other Stuff for #34-08 -- As promised, here are the links to my holiday guest appearances on Tony Kornheiser's show on WWWT-FM here in the Nation's Capital. December 14 and December 21 -- Join the facebook group "I Support Sunny James and the Angry Black Woman Show." Thanks again Daphine! -- MediaMatters for America. A great media watchdog site -- Brown v. Board of Education--What's That Got to do With Obama? -- Charles Taylor Says It's OK to Start His War Crimes Trial Again -- Private Security Contractors Look to Africa for Mercenaries. Just Another Way to Brutalize the Dark Continent -- Preacher Says Black Women Should Be Anti-Abortion Rights -- Europe--So Lovely, So Beautiful, So Full of Hate -- Gay Muslims, Really? -- Sisterlock Makes Waves -- Wonder Woman by a Woman --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Kenny Edmonds' "Playlist" -- Where In the World is . . . Washington DC, the taxation without representation capital of the United States -- Sunny's Good Word - limpid •
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Sun, 18 November 2007 Welcome to Show #33-07 Thanks for listening:Willamette University, New York University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Missouri, Roanoke College, Harrisburg Area Community College, San Diego State University, Catholic University, Marquette University, Harvard University, Bennett College, University of North Carolina at Asheville, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Concordia University, State University of New York at Binghamton, Cornell University, Tulane University, Rice University, University of Victoria, George Mason University, Howard University, Rutgers University, Nova University, University of Dayton, University of Illinois at Chicago, California State University, Depaul University, Emory University, Georgetown University, North Carolina A & T University, San Jose State University, University of Chicago, University of Kansas Thanks, also to those fearless and thoughtful listeners who actually pushed the little orange button: Mr. Brazelton, Ms.Carlyle, and crazyinconnecticut. To each and every one, Thank You! Sunny's got a new email address: theabw@verizon.net News and All the Other Stuff for #33-07 -- Civil Right Commission, Not any more -- Renter's Feel the Subprime Mortgage Pinch Too -- Countrywide Chief, Just Doesn't Know What Happened -- Racism, the New Form of TV Entertainment -- Who Are You Calling a Bitch--Why, Thank You!? -- Henry Louis Gates' Forty Acres and a Gap -- "Yeah" for the Garcias, Rodriguezs and the Martinezs -- Oakland's Black Muslim Bakery Cooking up Trouble and Murder, Pedophilia, Fraud and Polygamy and that's the Short List -- Aretha Franklin's New Found Control -- New Slave Narratives and the latest from Nathan McCall -- Books for the soul: Eat, Pray, Love, The Power of Now --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Refuge (When it's Cold Outside) by John Legend -- Where In the World is . . . Turkey Fork. Yes, it's in the US -- Sunny's Good Word - lenitive •
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Fri, 19 October 2007 Welcome to Show #32-07 Thanks for listening:Ferrum College, Eastern Illinois University, University of Georgia, Auburn University, Nova University, University of Wisconsin, Grinnell College, Michigan State University, University of Oklahoma, Lawrence University, Texas A&M University, Baruch College, University of North Florida, and the University of Texas at Austin And a special welcome back home to Howard University alumni. Sunny's got a new email address: theabw@verizon.net News and All the Other Stuff for #32-07 -- Nobel Nut -- History's Strange Fruit at the End of a Rope -- Sharpton & Jackson: The Only Ones Who Can Answer for Black America, So Says the Myopic White Media -- Gov. Deval Patrick says "yes" to Obama -- Dyed, Fried and Laid to the Side--The Candidate Will Find You Under the Dryer and at the Wash Bowl -- Glamour Doesn't Mean Smart -- School Systems Under Pressure -- Rwanda's High Tech Aspirations -- Kenya's Poor Banking by Cellphone -- Milwaukee's Kimberly Hubbard--Thank you -- Ken Burns' "War" on Taxpayers' Dollars --
For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . "The Delta Meets Detroit: Aretha's Blues" -- Where In the World is . . . Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Sunny's Good Word - acerbic •
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Sun, 16 September 2007 Welcome to Show #31-07 To financially support the Jena Six Please sent letters of support to Mychal Bell the only one of the Six that has already been tried Sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/aZ51CqmR/petition.html Thanks, ONE AND ALL FOR LISTENING! News and All the Other Stuff for #31-07 -- Sunny Face to Face with an Iraq War Veteran at the Local CVS -- Sunny Lets the Ball Drop in Her Own House! -- Mainstream Media & Jena, Louisiana & Cornell West and Mos Def Do Bill Maher -- The Little Rock Nine 50 Years Later -- Katrina Helps Rebuild New Orleans' Broken School System -- China in Africa, Again -- Ethiopia Finally Celebrates the New Millennium & Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church Visits the Source -- Do You Hate Your Vagina Enough to Go Under the Knife? -- Ireland's Green and Black -- Africa's Nuru Kane: His Music and Politics -- Common Sense from Chamillionaire -- For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Strange Fruit by Nina Simone. In honor of the Jena Six and the demonstrators on September 20 -- Where In the World is . . . Perth, Australia -- Sunny's Good Word - aplomb •
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Sun, 26 August 2007  Welcome to Show #30-07 Just Click the Button, like--Maria, Ethan, Jennifer, Colin and the contributor who shall not be named did. Thanks for the financial support! News and All the Other Stuff for #30-07 -- Women Die in Iraq Too CNN.com -- Obama's Lookin' for Some Down Home Dems Newsweek -- Candidates Shop at the Boutique to Find The Right Message The Washington Post -- You May Have Gotten Rid of Your Subprime Mortgage, But the IRS is After You Now The New York Times -- Jena, Louisiana, Again Newsweek -- Wachovia, SunTrust and Citibank Don't Want Your Business, Don't Worry Walmart Does TIME -- Two Years Later, Katrina is Still in Ruins and Mainstream Media Shows Up for a Day The Nation -- Snitching and Black Folks Still Living in Slavery The Washington Post -- Bush Says Yes to Billion Dollar African Men's Circumcision Program, But Still Invisible on Darfur The Washington Post -- When Will The Lights Go On In Africa? The Economist -- The Chinese Colonize Africa, Why Not? Everyone Else Has International Herald Tribune -- Homophobic Reggae, So Much for One Love TIME -- Hip Hop Down But Not Out (definitely not dead) TIME -- For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . "Sunny" Shines Bright -- Where In the World is . . . the Caspian Sea -- Sunny's Good Word - Indomitable \in-DAH-muh-tuh-bul\ See ya next time,Sunny Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 July 2007 Welcome to Show #29-07 They're gone--Joanna and Jonathan do Crenshaw Boulevard. Los Angeles be nice to my kids. They're back--University and college listeners, Hampton University, San Francisco State University, William and Mary and Howard University. Just Click the Button, like--Celisa, Craig, Dwayne and stillcrazyinconnecticut did. Thanks for the financial support! News and All the Other Stuff for #29-07 -- A tribute to a soldier unknown to me. One of the youngest to enlist and one of the youngest to die. He enlisted on October 2005. He was 17 years old. On July 14 Army Spc. Christopher D. Kube was killed by a roadside bomb. He was 18 years old. When you download this show please think of him and the others still fighting. Selfishly, I don't want this to be my son in five years. -- India's Presidential election. Well, at least they didn't start a fire -- In Darfur, soon they can fight over water too -- Africa, still waiting to crawl into the web. The New York Times -- Muslim Americans' risky American existence -- A beacon of hope in a Boston mosque. The Christian Science Monitor -- Detroit, Newark, Washington DC, Chicago; What's changed in 40 years? African Americans are fatter and more prosperous and is that enough? Chicago Tribune, US News & World Report, Clarence Page -- Banks get away with robbery. Think bounce protection will save you? Not! -- It ain't easy or cheap bein' poor. The Christian Science Monitor -- Who does the Hot Ghetto Mess look like? -- For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Pinetop Perkins and Susan Tedeschi . . . No clips with these suggestions, I just wanted to pass them on before they start to make too much noise rattling around in my head: Have you found Mavis Staples new CD, "We'll Never Turn Back"? Lucinda Williams CD "West" is rocking my world. And I had given up on "soul singers" doing anything for me ever again, until I heard Ryan Shaw. -- Where In the World is . . . Assam, Nilgiri or Darjeeling and my hot cup of tea please? -- Sunny's Good Word - Libertine
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