The Angry Black Woman Show with Sunny James, Show Notes #24

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for joining me again.  Thanks again to the many, students and faculty at colleges and universities across the country that listen to The ABW with Sunny James:  Vanguard University, Cleveland State University, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the University of Illinois, Western Kentucky University, Western Illinois and Carleton College.  The list continues to grow and I sent out an audio thank you to many more schools.  There will be no "Short Takes" for Show #24. Instead I have provided a year-end list of issues that have stayed with me this year and like the ghost of Christmas' past, I'm sure, will visit me into 2007. The elections, starvation and negelect in Africa, the celebrity-obsessed masses, racism, a former president's plagiarism and yes, even cheerleaders' uniforms have pissed me off this year.

Last month I attended an outreach program at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which was designed to support the 2007 PBS airing of "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhyms."  This meeting brought together many outreach and support groups for women, youth and homosexual/transgendered communities and others from across the country who are looking for some common ground and understanding of the images and politics of hip-hop music.  If you would like to know who in your area is participating in this outreach, please drop an email and I'll get you the info.  My personal belief is that if you listen to and watch hip-hop videos, if you love hip-hop or hate it, you need to understand the real politics and money that is driving this genre of the music industry.  Check show #20 for some background on the very dynamic, African-American director whose love of hip-hop and need for answers drove him to create this compelling documentary.

Update December 24:  See The New York Times article about Byron Hurt and Hip-Hop: Beyond Beat and Rhymes.

Closing out the year, kismet was doing was kismet does, as I was putting the finishing touches on Show #24, TIME Magazine named me "Person of the Year." Well, you too are a "Person on the Year."  So here's a year-end toast to all of us who upload or download and believe in the media by and for the masses.  Here's to me and my enduring strength and here's to you my listeners for finding what I do worth listening to.  Happy/Merry (fill in the blank) and a PEACEFUL NEW YEAR to us ALL!

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                                NEWS FOR SHOW #24

 

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--  Immigration in Black.  The Wall Street Journal

--  The Sleeping Giant Stirs, Is the Congressional Black Caucus Ready to Flex it's Tired Muscles?

--  How to Bring our Schools OUT of the 20th Century. TIME Magazine

--  Kimberly Oliver, 2006 Teacher of the Year

--  Racism by Jurors in Boston. The Boston Globe

--  Do Black Lawyers Lag at Major Firms? The New York Times

--  The French and THEIR Poor Race Relations, Part Trois. The International Herald Tribune

--  $150 Laptops.  Yes, I covered this before, but now detractor say the 3rd World doesn't need laptops.

--  Morgan Freeman Gets on the Technology Train. The Washington Post.

--  Black History Treasure Trove Hopes to Find a Home

--  Visting Washington? Stop in at the Anacostia Museum and see the  History of Black Paper Dolls.

--  My Hometown, Boston, Trying to Shed it's Racist Image, Wooing Tourist to Roxbury of All Places.  The New York Times.

--  Bob Marley's Son Making a Fashion Statement.

See ya next time, Sunny!