-- SHORT TAKES --

1.  Enough already with the main stream media attempts at making Barack Obama the Great Black--or is that--Democratic Hope and the salvation of Black folks far and near.  I don't care how many covers he's on.  Great life story, but he just isn't ready to lead this country.  And why are so many voices, who readly admit to his inexperience,talking the loudest about a presidential run?  U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek

November 2:  Add one more, last minute voice to this issue.  I just couldn't resist:  Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News weighs in on Obama.  And he raises some interesting points.

2.  The Tennessee senate race.  No video clip here. Funky, Foul and Nasty, or can I just say Republican?  Harold Ford--Quality race run by quality politician.  Can he be the first African-American elected to the Senate since Reconstruction?  Newsweek

3.  White women and their love of little Black African children.  Just NOT African American children.  Where's the love?  The WEEK

 NEWS FOR SHOW #23

--  From the Christian Science Monitor Women can't affort to 'opt out'

--  The veil debate rages on across the pond.  The WEEK

--  'Flash Divorce' the hot new trend in ever-westernizing China.

--  Motherhood waits for girls who get it, the right message that is, says USA Today

--  Race and medicine still make strange and unfortuate bedfellows.  The Boston Globe

--  Africa After War:  Paths to Forgiveness.  The Christian Science Monitor Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

--  Out with the MTV Jesus and in the the Real Jesus? TIME

--  Goblin vs Evangelicals The Christian Science Monitor

--  Yvette Modestin, Bostonian, Afro West Indian Latino with a little bit of European and South Asian thrown in for good measure, changing her paradigm. Boston Globe

--  Check out the graphic novel  The Bluesman GET IT!

--  Aaron Neville brings home the soul classics.  He is so fine.  He sing beautifully too!

See ya next time, Sunny

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for joining me again.  I hope I have provided something in this show that will spark your interest.  As usual I need to thank my listeners for their interest, but this week a special thank you goes to the many, students and faculty at colleges and universities across the country and yes around the world that listen to The ABW with Sunny James.  As I go down the list of downloads, just this morning, the Department of Defense Dependents School, European Region had checked in, so had the U.S. Military Academy and Hampton University.  The list goes on and I sent out an audio thank you to many more schools.

Show #23

-- SHORT TAKES --

1.  Enough already with the main stream media attempts at making Barack Obama the Great Black--or is that--Democratic Hope and the salvation of Black folks far and near.  I don't care how many covers he's on.  Great life story, but he just isn't ready to lead this country.  And why are so many voices, who readily admit to his inexperience,talking the loudest about a presidential run?  U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek

November 2:  Add one more, last minute voice to this issue.  I just couldn't resist:  Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News weighs in on Obama.  And he raises some interesting points.

2.  The Tennessee senate race.  No video clip here. Funky, Foul and Nasty, or can I just say Republican?  Harold Ford--Quality race run by quality politician.  Can he be the first African-American elected to the Senate since Reconstruction?  Newsweek

3.  White women and their love of little Black African children.  Just NOT African American children.  Where's the love?  The WEEK

 NEWS FOR SHOW #23

--  From the Christian Science Monitor Women can't affort to 'opt out'

--  The veil debate rages on across the pond.  The WEEK

--  'Flash Divorce' the hot new trend in ever-westernizing China.

--  Motherhood waits for girls who get it, the right message that is, says USA Today

--  Race and medicine still make strange and unfortuate bedfellows.  The Boston Globe

--  Africa After War:  Paths to Forgiveness.  The Christian Science Monitor Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

--  Out with the MTV Jesus and in the the Real Jesus? TIME

--  Goblin vs Evangelicals The Christian Science Monitor

--  Yvette Modestin, Bostonian, Afro West Indian Latino with a little bit of European and South Asian thrown in for good measure, changing her paradigm. Boston Globe

--  Check out the graphic novel  The Bluesman GET IT!

--  Aaron Neville brings home the soul classics.  He is so fine.  He sing beautifully too!

See ya next time, Sunny

Show #22

--  SHORT TAKES  --

1.  The Amish Community of Nickle Mines, will destroy the schoolhouse.  The Washington Post

2.  Mesa, Arizona Republican calls for mass deportation program call "Operation Wetback"  Arizona Republic

3.  The Virginia Senate Race on Race.  Where the Macaca meets the Road and it doesn't count if you only used the word "nigger" in college.  The Washington Post

4.  Hookers follow Katrina dollars.  Out of town workers say, "Oh, what a relief it is."  The Times-Picayune

5.  Last minute news about Juan Williams' "Enough" from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Days later, Part II: Juan Williams fires back at his critics in the LA Times on October 12

-- Ramadan's American Twist from The Christian Science Monitor 

-- The Republicans are disgraced and corrupt.  Will the evangelicals run for their political lives? The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, U.S. News and World Report

--  Ugandan War Criminals Walk Free.  The Christian Science Monitor

--  Somalia's Forsaken. Los Angeles Times

--  Somali Declares Jihad Against Ethiopia.  The International Herald Tribune

--  Are diamonds a girls best friend if she has to dig them out of the earth?  DeBeers talks about how the industry has eliminated conflict diamonds.  Newsweek

--  Playtime power for kids.  No, video games don't count. The Washington Post.  The International Herald Tribune

--  No playtime and fat dispensing vending machines make Jonny have a heart attack at 30.  Assault on Obesity from Newsweek.

--  Hip Hop Clowns on tour.  Rize comes to the stage.  The Washington Post.

--  Street lit takes center stage and mainstream publishers take notes.  TIME's Hustle and Grow.

See ya next time, Sunny

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 Just as a reminder, only the show topics are downloaded with the podcast.  Any other ABW musings and astute observations are posted on her website.  There are changes underway at the ABW web site. Now there are links to many of the articles and news items.  So, if you do want to read an article in its entirety, PDF and other links are available.  Also, remember to visit The ABW web site and click on the PayPal button to make a donation to this podcast. Thanks.

Hello Everyone--

Thanks for checking in for Show #22.

After being laid up for several weeks with a cold and very painful sore throat, I'm pleased to be joining you once again.  In addition, I'm pleased that I have recuperated enough to join you on my birthday, October 10.

This Small Voice In the Nation's Capital has a request.  The time has come to ask my loyal listeners and subscribers for their help in continuing to do what I do.  I could use your help to keep The ABW Show growing and thriving.  I do this show because I see a void that needs to be filled.  I believe that people need to be more informed.  Particularly people of color.  Please visit The ABW site and make a PayPal donation to The Angry Black Woman Show with Sunny James. It's fast, it's easy and any amount really helps.  Thank you.

Show #22

--  SHORT TAKES  --

1.  The Amish Community of Nickle Mines, will destroy the schoolhouse. 

2.  Mesa, Arizona Republican calls for mass deportation program call "Operation Wetback"  

3.  The Virginia Senate Race on Race.  Where the Macaca meets the Road and it doesn't count if you only used the word "nigger" in college.  

4.  Hookers follow Katrina dollars.  Out of town workers say, "Oh, what a relief it is."  

5.  Last minute news about Juan Williams' "Enough" .  Days later, Part II:  Juan Williams fires back at his critics 

-- Ramadan's American Twist from The Christian Science Monitor 

-- The Republicans are disgraced and corrupt.  Will the evangelicals run for their political lives? 

--  Ugandan War Criminals Walk Free.  

--  Somalia's Forsaken. 

--  Somali Declares Jihad Against Ethiopia.  

--  Are diamonds a girls best friend if she has to dig them out of the earth?  DeBeers talks about how the industry has eliminated conflict diamonds. 

--  Playtime power for kids.  No, video games don't count. 

--  No playtime and fat dispensing vending machines make Jonny have a heart attack at 30.  Assault on Obesity from 

--  Hip Hop Clowns on tour.  Rize comes to the stage.  

--  Street lit takes center stage and mainstream publishers take notes.  TIME's Hustle and Grow.

See ya next time, Sunny

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 Just as a reminder, only the show topics are downloaded with the podcast.  Any other ABW musings and astute observations are posted on her website.  There are changes underway at the ABW web site. Now there are links to many of the articles and news items.  So, if you do want to read an article in its entirety, PDF and other links are available.

Show #21

--  SHORT TAKES  --

1.  Ragin' Ray Nagin.  He may have spoken bluntly but that doesn't make it any less true.  You can catch his August 27th Meet the Press appearance on a podcast near you.  GET IT! and this is the MSNBC video link GET IT!

2.  Survivor.  It's a Race War in primetime on CBS. GET IT! and  GET IT!

3.  Bonnie Erbe's Response to the Forbes.com article titled "Don't Marry Career Women" GET IT!

4.  I've provided a review of Juan William's book "Enough", but not the excerpt that I read during the show.  Sorry for the miscommunication.

-- Cosby Exhorts Students, Parents at Baltimore elementary schools

--  Juan Williams' book "Enough" and Walter Mosley's "A Life out of Context" GET IT!

-- Russell Simmons Hip-Hop King Maker GET IT! and GET IT!

-- Mfume's Maryland Race, Not to be Missed

-- Russia's Racism Problem GET IT!

--  In Newsweek, Michael Eric Dyson says Not Much Has Changed GET IT!

-- Ghana's New Money or African Americans Behaving Badly, in Time.  Also check out another piece on Ghana's Tourist Desires from Show #5 GET IT!

--  Harold Freeman, Shepherd of the Sick from US News and World Report. GET IT!

--  Hip-Hop's New Style, Jay-Z Paints a Fine Line

See ya next time,
Sunny!

Hello Everyone--

Thanks for checking in for Show #21.

Please pick up a copy of Juan Williams new book "Enough."  And as a reminder from shows past, pick up a copy of Walter Mosley's "A Life Out of Context."  Both great books to start thinking critically about the state of Black America.

I've noticed an increase in the number of downloads from HBCUs in the last several weeks.  Thanks to all those great minds who find the time to listen.  Now that you're back at school, homecoming is just around the corner.  If there is an event that you'd like to give some attention drop me an email at theangryblackwoman@earthlink.net.  (And here's a last minute shout out to the ABW fans down at  Auburn--Go Tigers!)

My apologies, I mentioned during Show #20 that I'd would have information about, Hip-Hop: Beats and Rhymes, a documentary film scheduled to air on PBS stations after the first of the year.  I will get that info to you with Show #22.

Show #21

--  SHORT TAKES  --

1.  Ragin' Ray Nagin.  He may have spoken bluntly but that doesn't make it any less true.  You can catch his August 27th Meet the Press appearance on a podcast near you.  GET IT! and this is the MSNBC video link GET IT!

2.  Survivor.  It's a Race War in primetime on CBS.

3.  Bonnie Erbe's Response to the Forbes.com article titled "Don't Marry Career Women" GET IT!

4.  I've provided a review of Juan William's book "Enough", but not the excerpt that I read during the show.  Sorry for the miscommunication.

--  In honor of my daughter's 15th birthday which she shares with the anniversary (August 26) of the passage of the the 19th amendment, a look at the Equal Rites Awards, according to Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe 

-- Cosby Exhorts Students, Parents at Baltimore elementary schools

--  Juan Williams' book "Enough" and Walter Mosley's "A Life out of Context" 

-- Russell Simmons Hip-Hop King Maker 

-- Mfume's Maryland Race, Not to be Missed

-- Russia's Racism Problem GET IT!

--  In Newsweek, Michael Eric Dyson says Not Much Has Changed GET IT!

-- Ghana's New Money or African Americans Behaving Badly, in Time.  Also check out another piece on Ghana's Tourist Desires from Show #5 

--  Harold Freeman, Shepherd of the Sick from US News and World Report. 

--  Hip-Hop's New Style, Jay-Z Paints a Fine Line GET IT! (available shortly)

See ya next time,
Sunny

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 -- The ABW Rant.  The Disappearing News and the New Technology Ship has Sailed Without Black Passengers, GET IT!    AND with Ed Gordon's audience dwindling and PBS stations around the country discontinuing his show, what is PBS going to serve it's Black audience now and how is PBS' lack of knowlege in programming for a black audience going to play out?  GET IT!

-- Liberia's Blackboard Headlines in the New York Times GET IT!

-- The Chronicle of Higher Education Ask Can Technology Save the Developing World?  

-- Spike Lee's The Agony of New Orleans GET IT!

-- Black Women with Attitute Get Scrutinized in the Media  GET IT!

--  No Evangelical Politics for this Pastor's Flock GET IT!

-- The Crisis Ask "Where Do We Go From Here?" Blacks and Mega Churches

-- Whites in Prince George's County, Maryland, They've Come to Stay GET IT!

-- Out of Africa and Into Helping Hands in Washington DC GET IT! 

-- Hormones and Are Men and Women's Brains Really Different? (or is some researcher in trouble?) GET IT!

-- Stanley Crouch, of the Daily News has MTV in His Sight, (yes, it gets ugly) GET IT!

-- The Passing of Carl Brasher, a man of honor and Robert McCullough

-- Where's Your Copy of The Crisis or Colorlines or American Legacy?

See ya next time,
Sunny!

What is that Smell?  Programming Radio and TV For a Black Audience, Of Course

I want to share some thoughts with you all in what I hope will be seeds that you will continue to nurture.  I have been asked on many occasions why I have undertaken this endeavor, this internet radio show.  Well, I've been around broadcasting for a long time.  I've worked at the FCC, BET and NBC, and I've worked for the broadcasters' lobbyists group, the National Association of Broadcasters, and currently for public broadcasting. I've watched for many years while the interests of African Americans got low profile coverage or were blatantly ignored and pushed to the back burner, depending on, of course, who was in the White House.  As technology has changed and will continue to for many years to come, African Americans have to learn, not just what the technology is and its accompanying buzz words, but how to serve our communities news and information needs by using that same technology.  We cannot continue to just be consumers and provide ourselves and our progeny with the latest and greatest toys and believe we're apart of what's hip because we've got new gadgets.  In The New York Times dated August 4, and in a cute play on words, Lydia Polgreen wrote:  "All the News that Fits: Liberia's Blackboard Headline."  In this struggling African country there beats a fervent heart much like my own.  Mr. Serleaf gets it.  He understands that knowledge is power.  As he writes his chalkboard news for his community, he must be wishing, hoping, praying that one day, what he does will not be necessary.

In the United States, this bastion of the spoiled and greedy, I have been plagued, of late, by thoughts of what Black folks consider information and news and the businesses that delivers those bits of infinitesimal misinformation, those small flavorless morsels that Clear Channel, Radio One, NBC, BET, W this and K that,  and all the other broadcasting alphabet soup that are pretending to serve the Black communities around the country by serving up wall to wall hip-hop and R&B and making the news disappear.  I recently remembered that day several years ago, when BET announced the decision to murder its news programming.  I don't remember the exact day the news died on BET, but I remember feeling that things were changing and not for the better.  What other broadcasters or cablecasters could take up the flag or wear the mantel, or was better positioned to serve our community than BET?  Even before BET sold out they could have shown the world how to educate a community.   As MTV celebrates the 25^th anniversary of the channel that hip-hop made, the channel is showing the first video seen on the channel.  It was "Video Killed the Radio Star."  Apparently, the entertainment division of these conglomerates killed the news.  The awful thing is we would need something akin CSI to solve the crime or better yet a good game of Clue.  Was radio and TV news done in by Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe or maybe by Bob Johnson in the bank with a billion large or better yet and probably more true is that the news was done in by the very community that it was serving and its willingness to continue to accept being 2^nd rate and to take crumbs from the table, after all isn't that what we've always done.

The line between entertainment and news has blurred to the point of news becoming a faint, infrequent apparition.  As I've said before, there is less and less news in a news broadcast these days and I believe that in some communities the viewers and listeners mistake news for entertainment and entertainment for news.  How will our community mobilize, be informed, make a change?  In the past, at least in Washington DC, there was a healthy, competitive cadre of African American news professionals.  They were informed, responsible and worked stories until the last unseemly detail was exposed.  They were responsible for what was disseminated into the community and it was because of their diligence that news was the news.  Stations were built around the strength of their news operations and the information they could deliver to the community.  Yes, the day to day act of living can be difficult, challenging and down right painful.  Sometimes the headlines of the day meet you like a ton of bricks.  You want to look the other way.  But today's audiences have been slowly trained, conditioned and seemingly, literally programmed to expect less and be more interested in some far off star's lives than what's happening in their own neighborhoods.  But there are small voices out there, like mine who are speaking out.  Those voices will get louder and more insistent that radio stations, particularly, really serve the communities that they come into.

I would love to see Radio One, Clear Channel, and any other enterprise that delivers relevant, competent news to our community thrive and prosper.  But in recently released second quarter financial reports, Radio One, whose founder Kathy Hughes, sent this writer and host an email of suport several months ago, earnings fell 4% from a year ago to $97.8 million.  Profit dropped 59% from a year ago to $8.1 and the stock fell about 8%.  I can only hope that listeners are driving the landscape to change. 

Last week The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled "Moguls of New Media." In this article about podcasting and podcasters are delivering programming to and making deals with traditional media outlets, there was not one African American enterprise that made the cut.  It is my hope that the African American audience wakes up and begins makes more thoughtful decisions about where their news, information and entertainment comes from.  If what you're having served up looks like filet mignon, but smells like crap you better check it twice before taking a bite.

See ya next time,
Sunny

Hello Everyone--

My, oh my, what a hot summer it's been!  The challenges that this ABW faced all of the first half of the year have revisited and my first priority is to stay focused on the positive.  I am sooooo looking forward to the fall, my favorite time of year, cooler temperatures, clearer heads and hopefully some prayers answered.  So, I am more than pleased to be joining you again for Show #20.  There was so much I wanted to share but simply had to keep my producer's hat in place and hopefully have chosen wisely in what I've shared with you for this show.

One item that I will be revisiting for Show #21 is the upcoming showing on PBS in 2007 of a documentary titled Hip Hop: Beats and Rhymes, directed by Bryon Hurt.  I will have lot's to share next time about this upcoming and controversial documentary but in the mean time here's something to get you started. GET IT!

In addition, I'm looking for ways to increase the amount of information I pass along, but not increase the duration of the show and until something different comes to mind, I've started what I call "Short Takes."  Sometimes it's just not necessary to reshash an entire story or something that's been around awhile, note a correction or give a heads up to something in the works--You'll find that stuff in "Short Takes."  If that works for you, please let me know.  If you've got another idea, I'd love to hear it.  So here's a link about former Congresswoman McKinney and what appears to be her successor GET IT!

As I take my leave for now, please pay particular attention to The ABW Rant.  I have included several links to information that I think is relevant to you as a listener trying to get and stay informed and to me as I try to fill a void.  The quanity, quality and value of news and information provided to the African American community, no matter how you cut it, is shrinking.  Just this morning, Monday, August 14, in the St. Petersburg Times', Eric Deggans, reports on another PBS program supposedly for us that is failing or soon will.  I don't believe that the host in question was suspect, just the way PBS has chosen to produce the program that leaves something to be desired.  As George Curry of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service put it, "it's the bland leading the bland."

-- Black versus Brown, Newsweek GET IT!

-- Roosevelt Takes A Step Back for Blacks, TIME  GET IT!

-- Is There Really a Boy Crisis, Round 10

-- The Promiscuity Vaccine, How Far Will the Right Go? GET IT!

-- Shirley Chisholm's Brooklyn In Jeopardy? GET IT!

-- Ruby Jones one of Newsweek's 15 People Who Made America Great

-- John Q. Porter, Montgomery County Maryland Assistant Superintendent

-- Harlem Puts on the Ritz as Downtown Comes to Visit GET IT!

-- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Now Open for Tours

-- Born to Walk?

-- New Book about Bert Williams, Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips GET IT!

-- Al Green's Too Many and
Cannonball Adderley Shows Us Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.  Just a couple of songs I've had on my mind.  Enjoy

See ya next time, Sunny

There is some interesting news items included in this show.  And I hope you've noticed the links that appear after certain news items.  After considerable thought, I decided to include the links to certain stories.  I didn't want my listeners to have to go in search of information that I had readily at my fingertips.  But as I learned early on in this process, the Great and Wonderful Internet is indeed fallible.  So if the links seem to be out to lunch and not working at some point just know I tried.  In most cases I will include PDF files which should open automatically in Adobe Acrobat or the Acrobat reader. I will be making gradual changes to the site to create what I had envisioned from the beginning.  I hope you bear with me while I make these changes and try to make The ABW's site more functional, helpful and interactive.

So, while you're cruising down the Nile, cavorting along the Pacific or just dangling your toes over the side of your local pier, remember to check in and see what news The ABW has for you.  Of particular interest to me for Show #18 were two pieces.  The first, an article which reviews a new book about Bert Williams, the legendary and trailblazing vaudeville performer. There is lots of history about African American's role in vaudeville, theatre and performing in black face, but also how they survived racism, race riots and lynching.  Also, take your attention to the article about Shirley Chisholm.  What a story, what a life!  If you're not familiar with the first African American woman in Congress or the first African American woman to run for president, you owe it to your self to become familiar with her story and our Herstory.  Take an opportunity to see a recent (June 5, 2006) Peabody Award winning film by Shola Lynch titled Unbought and Unbossed about Shirley Chisholm's 1972 run for president.  Shirley Chisholm was a great politician, a spell-binding orator and an amazing woman.  I would also be remiss if I didn't mention that Shirley Chisholm's parents were immigrants from Barbados and that is where she received her early education. Her parents sent her BACK to Barbados for a proper  British education. Two of her famous quotes:

Of my two "handicaps" being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Just those words alone make being an ABW so much fun.

Show #18

-- Black versus Brown, Newsweek GET IT!

-- Roosevelt Takes A Step Back for Blacks, TIME  GET IT!

-- Is There Really a Boy Crisis, Round 10

-- The Promiscuity Vaccine, How Far Will the Right Go? GET IT!

-- Shirley Chisholm's Brooklyn In Jeopardy? GET IT!

-- Ruby Jones one of Newsweek's 15 People Who Made America Great

-- John Q. Porter, Montgomery County Maryland Assistant Superintendent

-- Harlem Puts on the Ritz as Downtown Comes to Visit GET IT!

-- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Now Open for Tours

-- Born to Walk?

-- New Book about Bert Williams, Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips GET IT!

-- Al Green's Too Many and

Cannonball Adderley Shows Us Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.  Just a couple of songs I've had on my mind.  Enjoy!

See ya next time, Sunny

Show #17

-- Grand Jury Doesn't Indict McKinney

-- No Way or Any Means for Representative William J. Jefferson

-- Violence with a Vengence in New Orleans

-- The New French Resistance:  Hiding Immigrant Children

-- Motherhood a Dying Proposition in Kabul

-- Angola's Mountain of Oil Money Sits Atop of Its Mountain of Waste

-- New Start, Again, for Haiti, Bonne Chance

-- Watch John Run, Watch Jane Read. Boys and Girls Learn Differently

-- High Court Revisits Racial Preferences in College Admissions

-- Geno's Steaks in Philly says, Order in English or Else

-- No Rest for Rosa Parks

-- Starbuck's Venti Will Kill You--Sooner or Later

-- The WEEK's Eric Effron Questions What the Credit Card Companies Want with His High School Son.  Americans Have Stopped Saving.

-- Ann Coulter:  White Chick Behaving Badly

-- Diary of a Tired Black Man, Where the Beef?

-- PBS airs a Lion in the House; National Geographic Channel airs Drowning New Orleans.  Both worth the time.

-- Candy Staton, Ain't She Sweet

See ya next time, Sunny!

 

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 Just as a reminder, only the show topics are downloaded with the podcast.  Any other ABW musings and astute observations are posted on her website.  There are changes underway at the ABW web site. Now there are links to many of the articles and news items.  So, if you do want to read an article in its entirety, PDF links and other links are available. (effective with show #18)

Hello--

The summer weather is upon us here in Washington, DC.  While I welcome the down time for the kids, I'm not looking forward to preparation of 3 meals everyday, constant bickering about who watching what on TV and how do I make my own comittment to The Angry Black Woman Show work while the kids are out of school.  I'll keep you posted as the time passes.

As I was preparing for this show the grand jury decided not to indict Representative Cynthia McKinney.  Hopefully, it will be the last I speak of it.

If any of my listeners know whether "The Diary of A Tired Black Man" has a release date, I like to get that information.  Right now it's just a cute 3 minute trailer and as a friend of mine says "the truth [about these issues] lies somewhere in the middle."

Show #17

-- Grand Jury Doesn't Indict McKinney

-- No Way or Any Means for Representative William J. Jefferson

-- Violence with a Vengence in New Orleans

-- The New French Resistance:  Hiding Immigrant Children

-- Motherhood a Dying Proposition in Kabul

-- Angola's Mountain of Oil Money Sits Atop of Its Mountain of Waste

-- New Start, Again, for Haiti, Bonne Chance

-- Watch John Run, Watch Jane Read. Boys and Girls Learn Differently

-- High Court Revisits Racial Preferences in College Admissions

-- Geno's Steaks in Philly says, Order in English or Else

-- No Rest for Rosa Parks

-- Starbuck's Venti Will Kill You--Sooner or Later

-- The WEEK's Eric Effron Questions What the Credit Card Companies Want with His High School Son.  Americans Have Stopped Saving.

-- Ann Coulter:  White Chick Behaving Badly

-- Diary of a Tired Black Man, Where the Beef?

-- PBS airs a Lion in the House; National Geographic Channel airs Drowning New Orleans.  Both worth the time.

-- Candy Staton, Ain't She Sweet

See ya next time, Sunny!

Show #16

-- Kai Wright and Mother Jones talk "Upward Mortality"

-- Being a Black Man. The Washington Post Gets It Right

-- Verizon's Pregnant Payday

-- The Period Choices.  Yes, that period.

-- Eritrea's Independence

-- What Peace in the Sudan? 

-- Liberia's Army Says "yes" to Women

-- Don't Forget to Celebrate JUNETEENTH!

-- Former Governer Wilder and His Slavery Museum

-- The Catastrophe Wasn't Katrina So Says The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson

-- Did Somebody Say CATASTROPHE, They must be talking about the DC SCHOOLS! Yes, in the Nation's Capital, the public school system is broken beyond repair! 

-- Books Galore:  Black Like You, Slave Religion and Black Men in Interracial Relationships

-- Music is My Muse, Politics My Mistress; The Story of Oscar Brown, Jr. directed by Donnie L. Betts.  A documentary about a man I wish was still around.

-- Please take a look at Crisis magazine.  It's worth the effort.

That's all for now.  I hope to join you again by Father's Day.  If I don't, #16 is for black men everywhere.  Please take care of yourselves.

See ya next time! Sunny

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Breaking News: If ever there was a need for 72 point type, this is it. After 6 very, very, very, very long months without the blessings of the almighty, all knowing, all powerful, all I break you and I make you, ITUNES, has found my lowly little podcast that could worthy of being listed on its sacred listings. They are sending me the illustrated guide to the secret handshake and my special lapel pin asap. In plain language--(drum roll, please) 

The Angry Black Woman Show with Sunny James is . . . FINALLY LISTED ON ITUNES.

Hopefully, those listeners who asked about The ABW appearing on iTunes are still around and interested in what I've got say.  Now you can easily find and download the show. 

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Hello to All--

SURPRISE!  I'm back. Thanks for joining me again so quickly.  I always said that I wanted to do this program weekly.  But with so many issue swirling during the winter and early spring it was a lofty goal.  But my most immediate difficulties have passed and while I know others lurk just around the bend, I hope I meet them with as much fortitude and positive energy as I met my challenges with last winter.

There are several items that I want to draw your attention to once again or if you haven't listened to the program yet. 

Please read "Upward Mortality" by Kai Wright.  The article can be found in the June edition of Mother Jones magazine or at Kaiwright.com. 

Also, make an effort to read the series in The Washington Post on "Being a Black Man."

Please look out for Music is My Muse, Politics My Mistress; The Story of Oscar Brown, Jr. directed by Donnie L. Betts. 

If you're in the Washington, DC area, stop by the Mocha Hut on U Street to check out local photograper, Douglas Turner's pictures of the Galopogos Islands.  And don't forget to get a bite to eat!

That's all for now.  I hope to join you again by Father's Day.  If I don't, #16 is for black men everywhere.  Please take care of yourselves.

 Show Notes #16

-- Kai Wright and Mother Jones talk "Upward Mortality"

-- Being a Black Man. The Washington Post Gets It Right

-- Verizon's Pregnant Payday

-- The Period Choices.  Yes, that period.

-- Eritrea's Independence

-- What Peace in the Sudan? 

-- Liberia's Army Says "yes" to Women

-- Don't Forget to Celebrate JUNETEENTH!

-- Former Governer Wilder and His Slavery Museum

-- The Catastrophe Wasn't Katrina So Says The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson

-- Did Somebody Say CATASTROPHE, They must be talking about the DC SCHOOLS! Yes, in the Nation's Capital, the public school system is broken beyond repair!

-- Books Galore:  Black Like You, Slave Religion and Black Men in Interracial Relationships

-- Music is My Muse, Politics My Mistress; The Story of Oscar Brown, Jr.directed by Donnie L. Betts.  A documentary about a man I wish was still around.

-- Please take a look at Crisis magazine.  It's worth the effort.

See ya next time!  Sunny

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Breaking News: If ever there was a need for 72 point type, this is it. After 6 very, very, very, very long months without the blessings of the almighty, all knowing, all powerful, all I break you and I make you, ITUNES, has found my lowly little podcast that could worthy of being listed on its sacred listings. They are sending me the illustrated guide to the secret handshake and my special lapel pin asap. In plain language--(drum roll, please) 

The Angry Black Woman Show with Sunny James is . . . FINALLY LISTED ON ITUNES.

Hopefully, those listeners who asked about The ABW appearing on iTunes are still around and interested in what I've got say.  Now you can easily find and download the show. 

RETHINKING GRADUATION SPEAKERS

As this season of caps and gowns proud parents and cheering friends and family is coming into full swing--I'd like you to consider this.  At the graduation exercise, be it from kindergarten to first grade, elementary to junior high school, high school to college or college to the real world, the commencement speaker is the one who is called on to encourage, entice and motivate even the littlest of graduates to pursue their dreams and to make mom and dad proud.   

But in this age of "Q" scores and star power and the overall obsession with stars lives--obviously, because our real lives aren't and have never been good enough--each rite of passage needs its accompanying star, the person charged with saying "you too can have a life like mine"or "I'm worthy of imitation and emulation." Is there any wonder why kids and adults alike are so obsessed with what Halle, Paris and Angelina wore to some celebrity ball where diamonds are served with the champagne or the depressing knowledge that their new 10 billion square foot home will be too small for them in a year or so.   

We have appear in front of the graduates from their very first graduation, the most newsworthy and richest people we can find who are willing to speak at the commencement.  Is it any wonder that little Suzie and Anthony may not think much of the quality of the lives of the people around them, their very own parents, guardians, friends and neighbors?  Those lives lived with dignity determination and an unwavering belief in that kid in the cap and gown.  The commencement speaker is charged with lighting a fire under the graduates, by the very sound of their voice or very presence at the podium, compel them to greatness.  You remember the old saying "go out and seek your fame and fortune."  It's a philosophy that built America and made stars and robber barons who names we still speak of with admiration and envy.  But it is also a philosophy that is beginning to undo our social and cultural underpinning. 

So at this graduation season, I encourage the recent or soon to be graduates to believe in themselves and their success with as much ferocity as those people who stood behind them for all those years believed in them.  And I encourage them to go into their own communities or the world at large and find a way to be of service.  To the 2007 graduation planning committees of colleges and high schools across the country, my grandmother is available for speaking engagements; she's the wisest, most humble person I know. Why not start teaching young minds that quality, strength, determination, and riches can be found right in their own back yards and communities.  Perhaps if we stop showing these young people how to worship stars and money, they may actually go out and fix some of the mess we've left for them.  So with that said congratulations Class of 2006!

See ya next time,
Sunny

Hello to All--

Show #15 

-- Listener mail

-- The ABW Commentary--Graduations. Whose pomp(ous) and what circumstance?

-- See Barack Run?  TIME's Joe Klein says he Isn't Not

-- White Guilt, When? Where?  What world does George F. Will of Newsweek live in?  The world according to Shelby Steele of course!

-- The Gangs of New Orleans. New Orleans moved and they found it again.  Let the murder, meyhem, death and dismemberment begin.  And you better keep your mouth shut. Yahoo, y'all!

-- Stepping Over the Line.  A brief story of immigration from the other side of the fence.

-- The Strange Genius of Oprah from The New Republic

-- All the fluff that's fit to print. The big cover up, why women of color can't find good cosmetics from the Villiage Voice

-- My confused and angry wash and go hair

-- Corey Harris doesn't have to ask for directions from  Mississippi to Mali

 

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Just as a reminder, only the show topics are downloaded with the podcast.  Any other ABW musings and astute observations are posted on her website.  There are changes underway at the ABW web site. Now there are links to many of the articles and news items.  So, if you do want to read an article in its entirety, PDF links and other links are available. (effective with show#18)See ya next time, Sunny.

To you folks that thought me disrespectful of black preachers and the black church--get over it.  Maybe you're too afraid to ask where your dollars are going--apparently, to lot'o life size posters and cut outs. Perhaps when you're ready to buy a home in the next millennium, when housing prices drop below 700K for a 1 bedroom/half bath, you can ask, "Pastor, can you spare a dime?" 

If anyone is wondering about my all out girly issues at the end of the show--you know, the make up and hair bit at the end--don't panic. Just something a bit light, it's summer after all and ABWs everywhere have these issues.  When I designed the logo for the show last year, I immediately started calling it the "angry hair" logo (you know, black women and hair issue--inseparable).  I didn't realize then how that sentiment would come full circle and who the messenger would be (you have to listen to find out).  So here's to summer, being hot, sweat, bad nappy hair, good nappy hair, loose, swayin' in the breeze linen drapped over swayin' in the breeze hips of all shapes and sizes.   Let the sounds of Corey Harris waft through your space, take a long drink from a very tall, very cold glass of iced tea and  STAY COOL!

Show #15

-- Listener mail

-- The ABW Commentary--Graduations. Whose pomp(ous) and what circumstance?

-- See Barack Run?  TIME's Joe Klein says he Isn't Not

-- White Guilt, When? Where?  What world does George F. Will of Newsweek live in?  The world according to Shelby Steele of course!

--The Gangs of New Orleans. New Orleans moved and they found it again.  Let the murder, meyhem, death and dismemberment begin.  And you better keep your mouth shut. Yahoo, y'all!

-- Stepping Over the Line.  A brief story of immigration from the other side of the fence.

-- The Strange Genius of Oprah from The New Republic

-- All the fluff that's fit to print. The big cover up, why women of color can't find good cosmetics from the Villiage Voice

-- My confused and angry wash and go hair

-- Corey Harris doesn't have to ask for directions from Mississippi to Mali

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Just as a reminder, only the show topics are downloaded with the podcast.  Any other ABW musings and astute observations are posted on her website which is unbelievably free of links and ads (which may be a unfortunate testment to her website's popularity, but that's an issue for another time.) 

See ya next time, Sunny.

America's Dream for Black Folks--It's a Nightmare

Given the immigration demonstrations here in Washington DC and other cities around the country, isn't it clear yet to Black folks that even under threat of deportation and arrest, immigrants are willing to risk it all for a way a life, to support their families, to live the American dream.  Where do we stand?  I read some months ago, when New Orleans was just starting the rebuilding process, an apparently able-bodied, African American man, complained about the immigrants who were moving into the city to do construction work.  He complained that the immigrants were working for $9 per hour and while he was unemployed, it was work he wasn't going to do, but all the while he complained about not having a job.  Is this what we as African Americans have become?  People who would rather complain and watch, as we're passed by. 

Have we grown so comfortable, and has life become so good for the majority of us that we can afford to keep the cupboard stocked with Hennessey, pay $4 a gallon to fill the tank disguised as an automobile, send little Daquan and Ashanti to the best private school, keep them covered in Nike, Vuitton, and Gucci and take annual vacations in Europe.  I don't think so.

How have we allowed, yes, allowed, the immigrant population, to push, pull and demonstrate us off the front burner to a place with no heat at all?  We are no longer the flavor of the month and truth be told we haven't been for a long time.  Politicians have been ignoring us and our needs for a very long time.  We invented, if not perfected the art of public demonstration, civil, but peaceful unrest.  But here you have people who are hungrier and less comfortable than us, showing us the way.  In March, in Houston, Texas there was an, oh so grand, conclave, called "Tavis Smiley presents The State of the Black Union."  It garnered a bit of attention and was televised on CSPAN.  I tuned in for a while and the more I listened the more I wanted to turn away, kind of like a traffic accident.  But for me and traffic accidents, it's not the gruesome aftermath of someone's inattention, inexperience, or stupidity that I want to witness. I want to see what dumb ass has pulled some dumb ass move and caused my hold up.  Well, that's the same way I felt listening to the telecast of the state of Black America on CSPAN.  I was done when the ever so honorable Louis Farrakhan wanted the audience to know that he felt that the event was so important that he chartered a private jet to be there.  And, my or my, did the audience eat that up.  Did anyone question at what and who's cost the jet was chartered. 

I picked up the May edition of Ebony magazine a few days ago.  Admittedly, something I don't do often.  Between the liquor and car ads and the fashion spreads that continue to encourage a lifestyle that has become more and more clear that we cannot afford and should not continue the pursuit of is always disconcerting.   But as my readers and listeners know, I am always of an open mind when it comes to getting my news.  Contained within the covers were pictures of a few of the esteemed attendees and the organizer.  Most notably front and center was Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton, followed by Tavis Smiley and off course the Anheuser-Busch representative was pulling up the rear--because of course, one of these grand events can't be held without the assistance of the beer, liquor, and cigarette companies.  Yes, the same makers of the stuff that's killing us, the organizers look to  for financial support.  Sounds like blood money to me.  Giving the picture a once over and over again, I thought, MY, what revisionist history a few of these fellas have been successful at creating.  We have Mr. Farrakhan, who according to many who don't suffer from amnesia, and from Malcolm X's widow and family, was the perpetrator or instigator of the assassination of Malcolm X.  We have Mr. Sharpton. Considering the firestorm taking place on the campus of Duke University right now concerning, if , when, and who was raped, I thought back to Mr. Sharpton's involvement with a certain Tawana Brawley.  Was it ever proven that he was complicit in those false accusations against the police?  Haven't Black women been devalued enough, throughout our history on this continent, that false charges then or now don't need to be manufactured.  We live it everyday, just tune into BET's wall to wall music video programming, and there you can find evidence of why the world has come to think of the Black woman as an ass shakin-disembodied-not-a- brain-in-her-head-good-for-nuthin-but-a booty call.  We are lusted after, taken forcibly, and then discarded, sometimes by our own men.  So, Mr. Sharpton's involvement a few years back, in what was proven to be false charges by Tawana Brawley is not ancient history to me.

But these are the men we should line up behind?  And lest I forget Tavis Smiley.  The banner that served as a backdrop for these august men read: "Tavis Smiley Presents: The State of the Black Union."  While Mr. Smiley was successful at pulling this event off, was he busy getting paid, either in the publicity or in his wallet?  If, he is so concerned about the state of Black America, how about finding some humility and taking his name off the banner.  I don't remember, during any protest where Malcolm or Martin had protesters marching with signs saying Malcolm X Presents: The Black Muslims. Or Martin Luther King Presents the March on Selma.  We live in an age of such grotesque self promotion that what should be an event to really make a difference becomes just another opportunity for the organizers to line their pockets.  In this age of getting paid, even those that supposedly come with our best interest at heart need to get theirs.  Certainly, times have changed and so the vehicle that we use to make our wants and needs known needs to change also.  But as the recent immigrant demonstration showed us, old school still works just fine.  I checked the New York Times bestseller list yesterday, and indeed Mr. Smiley has a best seller on his hands.  But my question to Mr. Smiley is whether a portion of those proceeds are going to the Negro College fund or to support the NAACP or Urban League or 100 Black Men?  Contained in the same edition of Ebony that I mentioned earlier was an article about Mr. Smiley's book titled, The Covenant with Black America.  First of all let's take a look at the word "covenant."  Merriam Webster defines it as:

1 : a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : COMPACT
2 a : a written agreement or promise usually under seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of some action.

Now considering the definition, between what parties does this real or imagined covenant exist?  Given any number of the 10 covenants, to a reasonably thinking person, there needs to be some major political and government buy-in.  But given the state of the self-serving and politically impotent Congressional Black Caucus--which by the way have a very nice picture in Ebony with a copy of Mr. Smiley's book in hand--which also begs the question, "why are these people smiling?"  But I digress.  Who is looking out for our interest on Capital Hill?  Again I say, old school worked for the immigrants, why not for us again?  As I said before, I will not line up behind some worn out figure head or new media darling whose major goal is to get more airtime or a bigger payday. 

The Time Magazine dated April 24 '06 reads:  "The typical route to the top of the New York times best-seller list takes an author to swank Manhattan publishing luncheons and the morning talk-show circuit.  But radio and TV host Tavis Smiley, editor of The Covenant with Black America--a manifesto by prominent African-Americans . . .  just went to church.  Published in February by the small Black-owned Third World Press, the Covenant has sold 250,000 copies." 

Of course Mr. Smiley went to church.  That's where you go when you want to sell something to the Black community, be it snake oil or books.  And perhaps the real Covenant exists between Mr. Smiley and his wallet.

For months I have been suggesting to anyone who will listen, that Walter Mosley's book titled Life Out of Context should be prescribed reading, particularly for young people.  Is it any wonder that you haven't seen Mr. Mosley on the talk show circuit or read about this particular title ad nasuem?  In my humble opinion, its because what he writes in a Life Out of Context, is not what the publishers, editors or politicians want Black America to hear, to read, to know.  Hell, the Black community doesn't want to hear how how badly it is failing.  Mr. Mosley is known and acknowledged to be accomplished writer of fiction.  But Out of Context is not fiction; it's a view of Black America that is real and honest.  It says those things that need to be said over and over again until we get off our asses.

Is there really a need for rehashed sermons and tent revival--whose only real goal is to get the plate passed--to get Black Americans to understand that the ground that has been lost by our pursuit of an American Dream that we didn't prepare for and were not prepared to sustain over the long haul is tearing us asunder.

See ya next time,
Sunny

-- Walter Mosley's New Black Power for The Nation

-- Republican and Black, Does it Really Make a Difference?

-- Paris' Pig Soup, Not for Everyone

-- Katrina Update including Reflections from Wynton Marsalis and Paul Prudhomme

-- Finally, The Refugees get to Vote?

-- Brazil Gets HIV/AIDS Prevention Right and Thumbs it Nose at the U.S.

-- Finances Done Right, Credit Unions for Latinos

-- The Smithsonian Does Hip-Hop

-- Teens and the Don't Blame Me Generation

-- First Woman Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

-- Basketball Crime

-- Granulated Etta James

See ya next time, Sunny.

-- Walter Mosley's New Black Power for The Nation

-- Republican and Black, Does it Really Make a Difference?

-- Paris' Pig Soup, Not for Everyone

-- Katrina Update including Reflections from Wynton Marsalis and Paul Prudhomme

-- Finally, The Refugees get to Vote?

-- Brazil Gets HIV/AIDS Prevention Right and Thumbs it Nose at the U.S.

-- Finances Done Right, Credit Unions for Latinos

-- The Smithsonian Does Hip-Hop

-- Teens and the Don't Blame Me Generation

-- First Woman Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

-- Basketball Crime

-- Granulated Etta James

See ya next time, Sunny.

Hello to all--

Thank you for bearing with me for an extended show #10.

To new listeners from around the world, thank you for your interest. And also, a warm welcome to what I hope is a whole contengent of new listeners from Barbados, thanks to a friend of a friend. Oddly enough it was the listeners from outside the US that weighed in most heavily regarding the "dump him or keep him" issue. Listeners from Germany, the UK, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Caracas really wanted to be heard. With the exception of two responses--both of those oddly being marriage proposals--the consensus was to "keep him." This will not be an excercise soon repeated, but it was quite a bit of fun.

Show #11

--The Death of Lobbying and How Did this Mess Get Started Anyway?

--Obama. A Shiny New Star?

--Voting Rights Under Assult. When Will You Listen?

--Michelle Singletary's Black and Blue Keys to Black Financial        Empowerment and Who's Name is on Your Butt?

--Illegal Immigrant's Go Home in a Box and Yes, Illegal Immigrants Do Come in Other Colors Besides Brown.

--The U.S. Slavery Museum and The Coming African American Museum Boom, But Brother Can you Spare a Billion

--At Your Service? Cable TV a la Cart

--The Boys of Baraka, a documentary worth seeing

--Barbie Must Die, the Bratz Too

--Nina Simone, Strange Fruit for a See Line Woman

That's it for this time. Please keep downloading, subscribing, and listening. To subscribe on ITunes use theabw.net/rss. To all those folks who have sent encouraging comments, thank you, very much.
See ya next time, Sunny!

Show #11

--The Death of Lobbying and How Did this Mess Get Started Anyway?

--Obama. A Shiny New Star?

--Voting Rights Under Assult. When Will You Listen?

--Michelle Singletary's Black and Blue Keys to Black Financial        Empowerment and Who's Name is on Your Butt?

--Illegal Immigrant's Go Home in a Box and Yes, Illegal Immigrants Do Come in Other Colors Besides Brown.

--The U.S. Slavery Museum and The Coming African American Museum Boom, But Brother Can you Spare a Billion

--At Your Service? Cable TV a la Cart

--The Boys of Baraka, a documentary worth seeing

--Barbie Must Die, the Bratz Too

--Nina Simone, Strange Fruit for a See Line Woman

That's it for this time. Please keep downloading, subscribing, and listening. To subscribe on ITunes use theabw.net/rss. To all those folks who have sent encouraging comments, thank you, very much.
See ya next time, Sunny!

Hello All--

Wow, how time flies when you're having fun. I hope you enjoy this extended, celebratory #10. Thanks to my subscribers and listeners who have made this such a fun thing to do.

Show #10

-- Explaining "Joanna and Jonathan go to bed."

-- A Valentine's Day Twist, "Dump Him or Keep Him."

-- What Do New Orleans, Ray Nagins and Haiti Have in Common?

-- The Legacy of Dr. King, Tainted?

-- Another Magazine Find, BBC Focus on Africa

-- Quick Cover Your Ears for Wiggazs, Niggazs and Darkies

-- Stinking of Apartheid

-- In Our Blood--Yes, Immigration Again

-- African Slaves' Remains

-- Boys, Girls, Parents, You Figure it Out

-- Marathon Lite, Like Hell

-- NY Times to African-American Women, You Just Don't Measure Up

-- Van Morrison Looking for Someone Like You

-- Quicken Me, Just One More Time

-- "Music" to Sunny's Ears.

Keep Listening, Keep Subscribing and don't forget to answer the question do I "Keep Him or Dump Him"?

See ya next time, Sunny!

Keep Listening, Keep Subscribing and don't forget to answer the question do I "Keep Him or Dump Him"?

See ya next time, Sunny!

-- George and Big Brother, They Do Listen

-- Studious Girls Gain Credentials

-- Racism. It's OK Now?

-- Lung Cancer, It's a Black Thing

-- Death by Fried Chicken

-- Nice Girls Will Blow You

-- Legacy Magazine. What a Wonderful Thing

-- "Something New" Redeux

-- Keb Mo's Blues Ain't Like Mine

See ya next time, Sunny!

Show #9

-- George and Big Brother, They Do Listen

-- Studious Girls Gain Credentials

-- Racism. It's OK Now?

-- Lung Cancer, It's a Black Thing

-- Death by Fried Chicken

-- Nice Girls Will Blow You

-- Legacy Magazine. What a Wonderful Thing

-- "Something New" Redeux

--Keb Mo's Blues Ain't Like Mine

See ya next time, Sunny!

Here Goes #8

-- Egypt, A Pyramid of Shame

-- Hypocrisy in Darfur

-- Ivory Coast Grows Red

-- Tipping Points Still Leave Women Unbalanced

-- Reporter and Pastor for Sale

-- Vernon Parker, A Farmer's Friend Headed West

-- The High Price of Being Poor

-- Melvin Van Peeble is Baack

-- Libertie, egalite et fraternitie?

-- S. Epatha Merkerson Tells MY Grandmother's Story and Wins

-- Maryland owns Uncle Tom, Cabin that is

-- "Something New" at the Movies

-- Dress Me, Baby. Kevan Hall, Just How Georgous Can He Make You?

See Ya Next Time, Sunny.

Hello to All--

Its just about 3am and I've just finished #8. After procrastinating and juggling kid's schedules all week, I recorded the show and ran out the door to do something even more fun than this podcast--I drove to the motorcycle show in Baltimore. I want a Harley Sportster so badly, I'll have to mortgage one of the kids by the spring to afford one. The kids and I and a friend had dinner in Baltimore's little Italy. It wasn't until I returned that I added music and posted the show. As I finish this process with the writing of the show notes, I realize how much I love doing this. I hope I keep you interested and listening. Next week, no kids, so, look for a show earlier in the week.

Here Goes #8

-- Egypt, A Pyramid of Shame

-- Hypocrisy in Darfur

-- Ivory Coast Grows Red

-- Tipping Points Still Leave Women Unbalanced

-- Reporter and Pastor for Sale

-- Vernon Parker, A Farmer's Friend Headed West

-- The High Price of Being Poor

-- Melvin Van Peeble is Baack

-- Libertie, egalite et fraternitie?

-- S. Epatha Merkerson Tells MY Grandmother's Story and Wins

-- Maryland owns Uncle Tom, Cabin that is

-- "Something New" at the Movies

-- Dress Me, Baby. Kevan Hall, Just How Georgous Can He Make You?

See Ya Next Time, Sunny.

There was news associated with several stories that time just didn't permit me to include. At the top of my list is President Bush's trip to New Orleans on Thursday. This was his first trip to the Gulf Coast in three months. And, what does he say, New Orleans is an attractive tourist destination with "some of the greatest food in the world . . . " Make sure you listen to "Can New Orleans save the soul of its food?" for Bush's comments to ring particularly clear or perhaps wierd, or maybe even odd. The second story that has a postscript for this podcast or perhaps is just getting started is the Washington neighborhood that has hired a laywer to PREVENT a public school from being renovated in their pricey neck of the woods. This story hasn't even begun to fight.

Show #7

-- The Cairo Massacre, SHAME, FOR SHAME, FOR SHAME

-- What a Woman Won't do for . . . Love, No, a Better Life

-- We're in the Money! Dresdner's Women File Suit. And What a Great Suit It Is

-- Racism as an Entree.  The Pig Soup of France 

-- Run, but You Can't Hide. The Boogeyman is Always in the Closet

-- Baseball----Schools; Schools----Baseball. Yes, here I Go Again

-- How About the Business End of a Stiletto?

-- Looking for Mr./Ms. Right, Change Your Paradigm

-- Hallelujah, for Shemekia Copeland and Dusty Springfield

Show #7 is ready for downloading even as this author's tooth pain insist on rearing it ugly head. If you're in the Washington area next week, I'll be in the Tenleytown Starbucks and Busboy and Poets interviewing people and giving away bags O' beans to dedicated listeners. I'll update you on the exact dates soon. Watch this space. One last item, if you've been trying to find this show on ITUNES, please be patient. But you can type "theabw.net/rss" into the subscription page on ITUNES and it can be found and added to your subscription list. So, thanks for listening; KEEP IT UP! Enjoy, Comment and Repeat. Say it with me, Enjoy, Comment and Repeat.

See ya next time,
Sunny

Show #7

-- The Cairo Massacre, SHAME, FOR SHAME, FOR SHAME

-- What a Woman Won't do for . . . Love, No, a Better Life

-- We're in the Money! Dresdner's Women File Suit. And What a Great Suit It Is

-- Racism as an Entree.  The Pig Soup of France

-- Run, but You Can't Hide, The Boogeyman is Always in the Closet

-- Baseball----Schools; Schools----Baseball. Yes, here I Go Again

-- How About the Business End of a Stiletto?

-- Looking for Mr./Ms. Right, Change Your Paradigm

-- Hallelujah, for Shemekia Copeland and Dusty Springfield

See ya next time, Sunny.

Hello all and Happy New Year! Thank you for listening. My New Year's surprise was an increase in listenership. I am pleased and encouraged that there is an interest in my particular take on news and issues. Keep listening!

Show #6

-- Trying to understand Sudan

-- Ethiopian Girls and Children, Run or Work

-- Cable a la carte

-- NEA's Big Bucks

-- Public School Bill to Parents: $1500

-- No Secret Here: Blacks at Higher Risk in Cancer Care

-- Katrina Welcome Mat: Whites Only

-- Records' First Years

-- Hollywood Spins a Bad Year. Glickman says "Yeah"; USA Today says "Nope"

--They're Lovin' Minorities Now!

-- Howz 'Bout a MLK Holiday DVD sale, Y'all?

-- DC Style; If You Build it They Will Learn? Not Here.

-- Running From DC to PG County Still Doesn't Make You Safe. Now, Where To?

-- Limbo, Limbo, Limbo, No More

-- Scott Joplin, Still on the Rag

-- James Allen's "As a Man Thinketh"

See ya next time,
Sunny