Sonnie Johnson

Sonnie Johnson is an American writer and conservative talk radio host.

Sonnie Johnson speaking at Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013

Early life

Johnson was born in 1980/1981 in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in the same city.[1]

Career

She has been called a "conservative activist".[2][3] She became president of the Virginia chapter of the Frederick Douglass Foundation in 2010.[4] She began writing for Breitbart News in 2012.[5] In 2013, when she spoke at the national Conservative Political Action Conference, she described herself as a "Tea Party activist".[6] In late 2017, The New York Times reported Johnson would be getting a show on SiriusXM satellite radio.[7]

References
  1. "Sonnie Johnson to Appear at July 4th Tea Party Celebration", Roanoke Star, July 1, 2010
  2. The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos exposes latest front in US conservatives' civil war, Associated Press, February 22, 2017 – via South China Morning Post
  3. Emily Chin (May 29, 2015), "Conservative activist Sonnie Johnson talks Jay Z, Republican values", The Daily Northwestern
  4. C-SPAN biographical sketch, accessed 2019-01-19
  5. Breitbart News author profile, retrieved 2019-01-19
  6. Frank Hagler (March 6, 2013), 11 Black conservatives speaking at CPAC 2013, Mic.com
  7. Maggie Haberman (December 6, 2017). "Stephen Bannon returns to the air with satellite radio program". The New York Times – via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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