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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1977)
Community Calendar O b F riday. March 18th, the Oregon Socialist W orkers P arty w ill host a public forum on the 1950's Reeeaberg Eapbaago Caae. The speakers will be Rose Leopold and Phoebe Friedm an, both local representatives of the National Comm ittee to Re Open the Roeenberg Case. They w ill apeak on "The Rosenberg Case: W ho W ere the Real . C o n sp irato rsr The forum w ill he held at the M ilitan t Bookstore at 3928 N . W illiams, between N .E . Failing and Shaver, a t 8 0 0 p.m. The date again is March 18th. A $1.00 donation w ill be asked. 50c for High School students and the unemployed. Batae CM aaas Im p rs v a m ia t A a aa rb d s a w ill meet at Boise School. 820 N . Frem ont. at 7 30 p m . on March 22nd. A vailab ility of Housing and Community Development funds Ktog l m p r a n m ia i A a o e cb tb a w ill meet at the King Neighborhood F acility. 4815 N X . ?ih Avenue, a t 7 3 0 p.m. on M arch 22nd. Guest Speaker is W arren Fluker, Y E P . on youth employment for the summer. M Y G R A N D M O T H E R ’S F U N E R A L relu rtan tlv walked fell • feeling deer, d I wanted to tu rn and w a but mv hand was cloaely and she was dragging me cbaer i finally we reached A. u t o my Mysteriously not knowing what I me with laughter in my I saw cold eyes which used to wi , give me a beautiful I saw the cool ir s v lips that use* I saw the long, gray hair which lay in braids reminding me of the days we her hair in the hot burning sun. te sit on the porch ana 1 I saw her coconut brown hands trim m ed and wrinkled H er hands did not more any more. i she would reach out to pick me up. They didn't shake any more like they need t o , They would no kmger reach out to pick me up again. I stood there remembering all the times she used to talk w ith me and laugh w ith me. I stood there looking at all the living memories standing still m a dead body. 1 felt my mother putting my hand saying it was tim e to move on tim e to go home. Rut 1 stood looking into her eyes looking at my childhood through her eyes. I couldn't find the courage to move. My mother kept pulling my hand And I pulled too. I wanted to let go of what was pulling me away from my love-aw av from my L n c fo ^ a r" V ''V Il was free. I bad been bolding with all my life. SffJMOMWft GùÌJt> which she had once been a part of. The tears fell from my eyes like the rain on a b itter day. My mother gently picked me up from th e casket. And mv heart cracked into pieces. She carried me away but still my hand reached out to my Still I yearned for her Still I cned for her. But this time she would not be there to pack me up and bold me i C O L D F IR E G U A R A N T E E D T O P L E A S E • •• By the tim e you read this week's column. Coldfire w ill have broken the attendance ■ and make me feel This tim e she cannot answer. K im Washington BLACK H A T R E D Black hatred, stop tryin g to dose my eves. Black hatred, stop try in g to prejudice my mind. Black hatred, like the devil below, stop try in g to destroy my soul. Black hatred, let me forget what the w hite man did to my race long ago. Black hatred, take your arms from around my neck cuase you are hurting me so. Black hatred, stop try in g to stop me from accepting everybody. Even those who still do not want us to be free. Black hatred, stop before the discrimination, nasty attitudes, and prejudices get next To me. Black hatred, stop before you'll kill me. Kim Washington M Y B E A U T IF U L B L A C K B R O T H E R You have talents and many potentials. You have ideas and abilities. Put them to use my beautiful black brother and succeed. Grow and learn. T rav el and seek. Earn you freedom and liberty Exercise your right to be. Get out there and get what you want as well as what you I Because no one is going to give you anything. Be proud of who you are and strive for what you can be. M y beautiful black brother. PARCHMAN FA R M S Roneaell M alray. 5. M rs. C h erry H endrix. M rs. Bernice Arm strong. M rs. Lizzie Sheppard. M rs. Isabel Jackson. M rs. D orothy Lew is and Mias L illie Richardson. 6 Young A d u lt Team ; M r. Level Broadous. M rs. Regina Green. M rs. Glenda Parka and M r. Archie Sima, M rs. Sarah Strayhand - Advisor. 7. Youth Team : M r. Leonard la m berth. Miss Rhonda Jenkins. Mias M ary Strayhand. M r. Vernon Norris. M r. Lawrence Carroll, Mias Sheila Moore. Mrs. Iren e T ucker and M rs. Lillian Jenkins - Advisor. 8. Children's Team : M rs. Lydia Mum ford and Mrs. Sarah M artin Advisors. Beautifully decorated tables w ill be dispersed in the Fellowship Hall of the Church. Following the short program guests will assemble to view the prize winning tables decorated in accordance with the theme "Christ for Today and the Future." Tasty delicacies will be dis pensed for all to enjoy. Everyone is cordially invited to come and enjoy this mammouth event of the year with the friendly m em b er! of Alien Temple. Come as early as possible and stay as long as you can. Mrs Helen Medlock and M rs. E . Jean Dillard are Co-Chairpersons for the Tea; Mrs Princess Reynolds and M rs Edna Tidw ell Keepers of the Records; Rev. T .L . Strayhand. Pastor. Subscribe to The Portland Observer Name Address City other areas $ 8 . 0 0 g° A J??8* (frntle Shattuck School Bldg. For info call 229-4075 Vrr,,-y to S .1 TtK m v h _ * * " “ • * T<* wlb * * * * ld Sunday. March 20 from 1 . ' k N ' K.’.UlnySWOrth' Cascade Bldg. Everyone is im vted. Precedes are for ch an ty. Robert King is chairperson. E lla Mae Gay. publicity chairperson Picket at the park adjacent to the Federal Bldg., 1400 SW 3 R D O N March 25th at noon. Show opposition to all U S support to South African regimes The Coldfire is alive! T h e y're one of the most dynamic, captivating young disco groups on the musical scene today. There is nothing that I disliked about the group at all. They're all professionally trained musicians that give th e ir all to each performance. H aving formed the group while still attending Selano College outside erf San Francisco, they all w ere music majors which tells you something about them in itself. Members of the group include:Michael Loatman iGem im i, G uitar; Jimm ie W eaver. (Virgo) Saxapbone; Roland Jen nigs (la b ra ) Trum pet; Douglas Stevens (Sagittarious) trombone Ronald R iilera (Sagittarious). keyboard; W arren P etto (V irg ol. base; Ray Towns I I (Pieces), drums; W illiam Reese (Aquarian), lead vocalist; and Ray Towns I i Capricorn' personnel manager and musical director for the group Coldfire is a San Francisco baaed group and this is th eir firs t lour of the Pacific -Northw est. They re planning a far east tour in the near future. T h e ir new release “P a rty H ard y" and “Badder Than Bad" is steadily climbing the charts. There ia no question about the talent, dedication and fwture of Coldfire on the musical scene. They offer a clean crisp sound that is guaranteed to please! b re a d “u NO PRI ADDED ATIVES MADE WITH PURE U Q U D VEGETABLE SHORTEMNG Baked just right for you! an I P TH E D O W N S T A IR C A S E Pleasure. Allea Temple piaos anaeal tea Tri-County area $ 7 . 5 0 record a t Portland State and quite possibly at Jew elias too. for a one night performance. I met Ray Towns L personnel manager and musical director for Coldfire. a couple of nights prior to th e ir tw o day engagement at Portland State Friday and Saturday nights. In this business, you meet singers, dancers musicians, a c to n , actresses, managers and generally everybody related to the business, eith er directly or ind irectly’ N atu rally, th ey're all promoting themselves, th eir clients, th eir friends o r a particular artist they like, which is completely understandable because - that 's the name of the game. Promotion is a way of life in any endeavor in life if you stop to think about it. Ray Towns 1 promotes a belief in the group's ability to perform professionally »hut's guaranteed to please any skeptic or in this caae - review er. Not saying that I was skeptical about the group's ability to perform , because frankly I wasn't. Having talked to them individually as well as collectively about themselves, th eir music and their future aspirations. I knew the least they could be ia sensational JEWEUA1« K im Washington 1. M rs Frankie W hite. M rs. W illa Phillips. M rs. Jessie L. Manus and M r. W alter Mitcheli 2. M rs. Alzena DeDeleveaux, M r Roger M o m s and M r. Benjamin Pierce. 3. M r. C.C. M cCorvey. M rs. M artha Jordan. Mrs. Daisy P erry and Mrs. Cordelia Horsley 4. M r. Hom er Zackery and M rs. M t. Tabor School. 5800 SE Ash. * * M >y° r N e,‘ in an Open 8 ° ° P m th* B l,ck CuHunJ Affairs Board of PSU will present D aaY Bother M e, I C a a t Cape. It ia a m ixture of rock, ballad, calypso and better Allen Temple C .M .E . Church will eele brate is Sixteenth Annual Mammoth Tea on the Fourth Sunday. March 27th from 4:00 p.m. at Allen Temple Church. 4236 N X . 8th Avenue. Portland. Oregon. Special Guest Artists in Concert at the tea will be the Brahm Singers of Van eouver. Washington at 4 p.m. The Brahm Singers have travelled extensively throughout the United States and also Europe. They have been invited back to Europe this year. The late M rs. Gladyee McIntosh of Alien Temple Church was a member of this famous group of singers. The group is under the direction of M r. W ilton J. Slocum, its founder and d ir eetor. M r Stephen B. Tillman w ill be at the organ in the ten m inute Organ Prelude of Organ Music prior to the 4 p.m. Program. Awards will be given to the Mammoth Tea Teams who have worked for the past three months in the mammoth Tea D riv e. The Church members were divided into eight teams for this effort Team Leaders are as follows: W‘U Gue* ’ ’* * * “ '' C ity of Portland hearing on proposed uses of federal revenue sharing funds, in the Council Chambers. C ity Hall, at 10:00 a m. on March 21st. P b a a ia g C o m a to m e nearing on Comprehensive Planning, in Room 200, C ity Hall Annex, at 7:30 p.m. on March 22nd. T a t t lB g Seburoo la Perspective", the last of a series of meetings sponsored by the Epilepsy League of M etropolitan Portland, the Epilepsy League of Oregon. Epilepsy Canter of Oregon and the Psychology Departm ent at Portland State University w ill be held Thursday. March 24lh. 7 :3 0 p.m. Room 228. C ram er Hall. Portland State U n iversity. Peninsula Senior C enter Hosts a Roaring W i G a b unique p arty on Friday. March 18th featuring "come a t you w ere half a century ago" w ith prizes for the best fla p p e r. era outfits, and the Senior's own version of "bathtub gin". Highlight of the party will be a guessing game of prices from a Sears Catalogue. 1928 vm tage, with prizes for the best 50-yar-old memories Music for the charleston and other tim ely dances w ill be supplied by pianist C liff Nelson w ith Fred G rant on drums. Lots of fun for everyone is promised. 2 0 0 to 4 0 0 p.m. at the Peninsula Senior C enter. 7508 N . Hereford. Senior citizens are welcome Bill Sutherland, South African Representative for the American Friends Service Com m ittee, w ill speak on I A lavelveaseat b Southern A frica on March 17th. at P o la n d State U m veraitv. 75 Lincoln Hall, at 7 :3 0 p.m. H e w ill speak on U X «^ rp arato and F ia aa cb l Sappert b r A partheid W W t W e Caa D a, at St. Andrews Church Comm unity Center. 806 N X . A lb erta, on March 18th at 7:30 p.m. Suddenly my hand dropped. M y hands flung towards the casket and 1 grabbed a hold of w onto all my years. And 1 knew I didn't want to let go of it now. I held on to her w ith all my heart with all my soul. * Monday. Dennis Springer with m em bers of Pleasure Steve Wolfe, D an Friesen. Ron Stein and John Stowell SAM 'S H ID E W A Y - Shades of Blue M A R K E T P L A C E , Lake Oswego Shira w ith J e ff Lorber » 3 0 wn KRAZY KAT M po o ' s komix » 35 UNCLE HOMER’S JAZZHOLE COVER our longest running ja zz program 2O 0om JAZZ RAP n/GEORGE cookie ja zz A blues all a fte rno on 6-00 KDNEY STEW blues w/John Head 8 0 0 YOUR KMC OF SOUL SHOW bold black A to g e th e r m usic v/M.chae! D » 0 0 RAD» LAB collages o f rock ja z z and sometimes S vant-qarde music vw'Rick Mrfchell end Grambling student wins college theater award Washington. D .C .-L o n g famous for its football players. Grambling U niversity may some day be b etter known as the campus th at spawned Judi Ann Maaon. American playw right Judi Ann, a 22 year-old senior in the speech and dram a department at G ram b ling. in Louisiana, today was named as the first w inner of the $2.500 Lorraine Hansberry A w ard presented by the McDonald a Corporation for the beat play on the Black Experience in Am erica at the American College T h eatre Festival. This makes her the first repeat winner in the nine year history of the American College T heater Festival. As a freshman she won the Norman Lear Aw ard for achievement in comedy playw riting. The Lorraine Hansberry A w ard, inati tuted this year as an annual event by McDonald's Corporation in memory of the young Biack w rite r whose Raisin in the Sun" is an American classic, was among 10 th eater arts awards announced at an A C T F press conference today at the John F Kennedy Center for the Perform ing A ria . Judi Ann's new play. “A Star A in 't Nothin' But a Hole in Heaven." ia frankly autobiographical. It chronicles the agon ies of a young Black girl who is breaking the bonds of the old life in the country to take advantage of new opportunities for education and personal development. It will be performed on M ay 31st at Washington's Back Alley Theater. When informed of the award $2.000 for her and $500 for Gram bling Judi Ann said this is the 'epitome of all I've ever wished for. Lorraine Hansberry is my ideal." But it is evident that she feels almost as much excitement about May 15th, at 10 a.m .. when another important production w ill take place at Grambling. Judi Ann Maaon is going to get her degree. For Judi Ann, who was orphaned at age eight and grew up in Bossier C ity, La., w ith th ree brothers and tw o sisters. the college graduation marks the victory of a dream over reality. “I tried to earn money for college by working in a door factory, but the doors w ere too heavy for me to handle." she said, "so I quit afte r tw o months." Luckily, tuition was only $400 a year then, so I managed to get b y " "A Star A in ’t Nothin' " was chosen out of 11 qualified entries by Robert Hooks, the Washington actor, producer and director. But since M r. Hooks was very much impressed by another play, "Oh. Oh. Freedom ." by E rw in W ashington, of the U niversity of California. Los Angeles, McDonald's decided to give a runner-up prize of $500 this first year of the award. E rw in Washington s play treats the pay chological enslavement of the Black man in today's society. r— DISCO LOUNGE P #C ! Jobs Head M id to ri D. Ö « . Casaa Corner of 8th A N.E. Dokum Thursdays 7 • 1$ pus. Fridays, Saturdays, 3 | No ID necessary , non-alcoholic beverages . sandwiches I I i JUI
