Sunny Nash

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Author-Journalist






Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's
​​​            Sunny Nash
​                   Author-Journalist

​                   Executive ​Editorial
​           Project Management

   Communications Strategy
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​     Creative & Digital Rights
​                     Administration

​Digital Assets Management​

​Publishing - Digital Production - Planning - Design - Copywriting - Copyediting - Marketing - ​Digital Records


SELECT PROJECTS​


​2025: Editorial Project Manager, Publishing, BREAKING THROUGH Lighting the Way (Final Report), Dedicated to Carolyn Smith Watts.​

2023, ​The 
(remastered) Beverly O'Neill Tribute Video  by Sunny Nash, Hosted by the late Peter Bostic.​

​​​​2019-2023, Editorial Project Manager, Creative Rights Administrator,  O.W. Sadberry, Sr., Intermediate School. His late 
son, Oliver "Wayne" Sadberry, Jr., built his dream into a movement to honor his father, growing into a valuable public service, recognized by G.H.W. Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. 

2016-2019, Editorial Project Manager, International Olympic Committee project, featuring Olympic Medalist, John Rambo. This project included extensive family research, oral history, photographic exhibition. In 2016, honored by the California Senate for editorial project management of Cultural Heritage Programs. In 2016, presented the American Business Women's Association Shine Award for Cultural Journalism.

2015​, Editorial Project Manager, Photographic Archivist, Preservation Manager, Curator: BREAKING THROUGH: Lighting the Way, Original Book, exhibition and archival preservation of 12 African American Women who made a difference in the history of Long Beach CA.

2014, Editorial Project Manager & Winner: Ottis Lock Award & Cultural Research Grant for The Peterson Legacy, which emerged from an archaeology report ordered for African American landownership in Texas.

2013, Editorial Project Manager, Photographic Archivist, Preservation Manager, Curator:  The Peterson Legacy​ Exhibition, George H.W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum Texas A&M University, College Station.

2013, Editorial Project Manager, Moderator, Producer: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Award, The Loving Story, How an Interracial Couple Changed a NationNEH Civil Rights Series, Created Equal.

​2011-12: Editorial Project Manager Short Film, Tuskegee Airmen by Sunny Nash
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2009-10: Editorial Project Manager, Documentary, Negro League Baseball Player, Ernest McBride. The interviewer and host was Stan Anderson, Coach's Corner, Seal Beach CA.

​​​2008, Commissioned by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to Contribute and do Research for the  Harvard University African American National Biography, Published by Oxford University Press.

2007, Author, Editorial Project Manager: Fighting for the People, a book about Negro League Baseball player, and civil rights activist, Ernest McBride.​

2004-07: Editorial Project Manager and Publisher of the book, Untold Legacies: a Photographic History of Black Long Beach Long Beach, California; and Producer of the Book Trailer on 
This Is Our Own Legacy  ​​
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2004-06, Television Series, Arts & Entertainment Magazine, Charter Communications,  2004 
Winner: Producer of the Year Award.

2003, Artist Fellowship, California Corporation for the Arts
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​​2000, Contributing Researcher and Author: Reflections in Black: a history of black photographers from 1840-present by Deborah Willis, published by 
W.W. Norton NY; ​​Smithsonian toured the collection internationally in 2002.​