Author: Sunny Nash Company: Sunny Nash Region: California Website: www.sunnynash.blogspot.com Memorable Quote 1: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Author Comment / Biography: Sunny Nash is the award-winning American author of Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s, recognized by the Association of American University Presses as a resource in the understanding of race relations in the United States. Among the first women to attend and graduate from Texas A&M University, Nash earned a broadcast journalism degree. While attending college, she was a news anchor for a country AM radio station, after which, she was program director at the National Public Radio affiliate; magazine writer, photographer and television producer; and broadcast writer and producer. Nash won first prize in the Houston Post-Houston Public Library Literary Competition and, was nominated for a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her television documentary, We Have Something To Say. The documentary’s title song, which Nash composed, was a finalist for a Sammy Davis Award in songwriting. Nash won a California Public Corporation for the Arts Literary Fellowship in 2003 and a second fellowship in 2010; first prize for a Charter Communications Producer's Award in the category, “Talk & Entertainment,” 2004; was a contributing columnist to the Houston Chronicle’s Texas Magazine feature, “State Lines,“ 1990-2002; and collected in the book, State Lines, 2000. Sunny Nash is among women included in a scholarly edition, Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-century Experience (2010). In 2008, Nash’s music biographies of Clark Terry, Kenny Burrell and Ben E. King were published in the African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, a collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press. Also in 2008, Nash won a listing among Poets & Writers distinguished authors and was included in Black Women in Texas History, edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre, a multi-author narrative of the experiences and impact of black American women from the time of slavery (Texas A&M University Press, 2008). Nash is referenced in African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture by Anne Bower, (Social Science, University of Illinois Press 2007); The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places by Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, (Literary Criticism, Louisiana State University Press 2002); and Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places by Laura Szucs Pfeiffer, (My Family.Com, Inc., 2000). Bruce Glasrud and Laurie Champion included Nash’s short story, “Amen,” in The African-American West: A Century of Short Stories (University Press of Colorado, 2000). Nash is mentioned in Texas Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own (Texas A&M University Press, 2007); and Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial & Triumph, by Ruthe Winegarten (University of Texas Press 1995). Find other literary contributions by Sunny Nash. Nash’s photography and historic photographic reproductions illustrate numerous magazine articles, published documents and genealogy books. Two photographs from Nash’s collection, SHOPPING FOR HOPE: A Photographic Study of Storefront Churches Across America were included in Reflections in Black: A Photographic History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present (W.W. Norton New York 2000), from which images were collected by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and New York’s Schomburg Center for the Study of African American Culture. Nash’s work is recognized by Women in Photography International and the African American Photographers Guild. Buy Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s by Sunny Nash: http://www.shop.drtmuseum.org/product.sc?productId=39&ca .... http://www.sunnynash.blogspot.com

Displaying 1 to 7 of 7 articles Pages: 1  Articles by Sunny Nash  1. Black Female Olympic Gold & Jim Crow Laws August 10, 2012 In the 1932 Los Angeles Games Tydie Pickett and Louise Stokes of Tuskegee Institute made the U.S. Olympic track and field team. This was about the time that Rosa Parks began dedicating herself to destroying Jim Crow laws through involvement with the NAACP. These women opened the doors for th... 2. Brazos Valley African American Museum Honors Sunny Nash May 27, 2012 The Brazos Valley African American Museum (BVAAM) will unveil two inscribed copies and an exhibition piece representing the award-winning book, Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's (Texas A&M University Press), by Sunny Nash, daughter of James Nash and the late Littie Nash of Bryan, on Saturday, June ... 3. Doris Topsy Elvord & Race Relations in Southern California February 10, 2011 Doris Topsy-Elvord, first black woman elected to the Long Beach City Council; first black female vice mayor of Long Beach; first African American and third female on the Long Beach Harbor Commission; and featured in the book, BREAKING THROUGH Lighting the Way, continues to light the way in race rel... 4. Public Speaking - Author and Book Internet Press Releases December 05, 2010 Authors using internet marketing and online press releases to create public speaking events about their books increase book sales, expose their books to thousands of web browsers, attract author publicity, get literary exposure and find consulting contracts, all of which help authors build a dream w... 5. Internet Marketing For Author Speaking Engagements October 30, 2010 Online promotion, through internet marketing, can increase public speaking invitations, improve book sales and expose you and your book to thousands browsing the web. As an author, you need to learn to prepare online press releases because many print publications that include book reviews an... 6. Sunny Nash Writes about Clark Terry, Jazz Ambassador October 30, 2010 Clark Terry, born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1920, has a career that spans more than six decades. When Terry was a young boy, he made his first horn from a garden hose, a funnel and a piece of pipe because there was no money in his family of ten children to purchase a horn. Recognizing his ... 7. Speak Up about Your Book February 16, 2009 You want to do public speaking engagements about your book? First, write the book. Then sell yourself. Speaking engagements on your book may come in a variety of forms--book signings, seminars, workshops or events, which are important components to help you sell yourself and your book. Howev... Pages: 1

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