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Sonari Glinton

  • Contributor, ForbesBLK
  • Podcast Host, Producer and Consultant, DeLite! Media
West Hollywood
As seen in: ForbesBLK, Apple Podcasts, Forbes, HuffPost, Code Switch, NPR, Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts, Slate, Substack, Flipboard, KQED-FM (San Francisco, CA) and
Covers:  auto industry, travel, economics, etc
Doesn't Cover: Celebrity, science
intersection of the Economy and Culture, NPR Personality, Slate, Forbes. -- Email: sonari@delitemedia.com ko-fi.com/sonari

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Sonari Glinton is a NPR Business Desk Correspondent based at our NPR West bureau. He covers the auto industry, consumer goods, and consumer behavior, as well as marketing and advertising for NPR and Planet Money.

In this position, which he has held since late 2010, Glinton has tackled big stories including GM's road back to profitability and Toyota's continuing struggles. In addition, Glinton covered the 2012 presidential race, the Winter Olympics in Sochi, as well as the U.S. Senate and House …

Sonari Glinton’s Journalist Portfolio

Episode 628: This Ad's For You

Episode 628: This Ad's For You

Note: This show originally ran in . In the early 1960s, the ad world had a one-size-fits-all philosophy. Blac…

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NPR's Sonari Glinton

NPR's Sonari Glinton

Cultivating Media and Minds

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NPR's Sonari Glinton

NPR's Sonari Glinton

Cultivating Media and Minds

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Episode 632: The Chicken Tax

Episode 632: The Chicken Tax

This episode originally ran in 2015 . German families in the 1960s loved tasty, cheap American-raised chicken…

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Forgetting Isn't Healing: Lessons From Elie Wiesel

Forgetting Isn't Healing: Lessons From Elie Wiesel

In the late '80s, when I was in the fifth and sixth grades, my school librarian took a special interest in me…

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Articles

How Black hair care grew Black power : Planet Money Original

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By Sonari Glinton, Erika Beras , James Sneed , Marianne McCune
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The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen did so much more than make Black afros shine. It was the money behind the television show Soul Train, it helped fuel the civil rights movement – all because of an entrepreneur named George Johnson. For decades, Joan and George Johnson owned and ran Johnson Products Company, a Black hair care company out of Chicago.
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The Futures Lost to AIDS: A Reflection on Black Lives and the Ongoing Fight

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By Sonari Glinton
| Substack
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What AIDS Took From Black America And Why It Still Matters Today

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By Sonari Glinton
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Today is World AIDS Day, and it is still hard to describe what was really lost in the AIDS pandemic. I can point to statistics, but they only tell us how many people died. They cannot show the world that would have existed, the futures, the leaders, the friendships, and the masterpieces that never came to fruition. Demonstrators gather in hommage of the victims of AIDS, walking along a large patchwork quilt representing the dead.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Producer, WBEZ

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I learned to type on an Olivetti typewriter, that my mom bought when I was in second grade

What's your favorite social network?

Instagram

Awards

Society of Professional Journalists Award

2005 - Investigative Journalism

“Juvenile Detention Center Conditions Through the Eyes of Youth,” Linda Paul, Cate Cahan and Sonari Glinton of Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ-FM, Chicago, Ill.

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