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A Dream Almost Realized...
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PTC's main goals for 1988-89 is to
expand the dreams of King School
students and their vision of the world
that is available to them. And as 1989
fast approaches, both the choir and
the PTC is realizing their dream.
Martin Luther King Elementary
School is located in inner N.E. Portland.
despite the fact it is located in a low-
income community that is beleagurred
by high unemployment, crime and
econom ic problems.
King School, the choir and the Parent
Teacher Council are committed to
making the trips to Atlanta and
W ashington, D.C., however, the trips
Members of King School Choir pose for picture after last Saturday’s
perform ance at Nordstrom s - Lloyd Center
With a population of over 700 students,
King is one of Oregon's largest
elementary. In a recent Oregonian
article (August 1988), King School
was referred to as one of Portland's
most successful elem entary schools,
Kwanzaa...
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The w ord Kwanzaa means "First or
first fruits" and is patterned after African
celebrations that take place among
agricultural societies at harvest time.
During those celebrations, collective
labor abounds. There is great joy,
much thanksgiving, rememberance
and togetherness.
Like Christm as and other holidays,
Kwanzaa has its symbols that
represent and reinforce desirable
principles, concepts and practices.
They are: 1. Mazaoj (Fruit and
vegetables) 2. Mkeka (Place mat) 3.
Kinara (The candle holder for seven
candles - one black, three red, and
three green) 4. Vibunzi (Ears of corn
reflective of the num ber of children in
the home) 5. Zawadi (Gifts) 6. Kikombe
Cha Um oja (Community Unity Cup)
7. Mishum aa Saba (The Seven
Candles).
Kw anzaa celebration includes
fashion, (traditional) recipes, home
decorations and Afrocentric hairstyles.
Anyone wishing to learn more about
Kwanzaa, as well as prepare and
participate in this year's celebration,
are encouraged to drop by the Talking
Drum Bookstore at the corner of
N o rth e a s t 17th and A lb e rta .
Information about Kwanzaa and
Kwanzaa symbols can be purchased
there.
Happy Kwanzaa celebration!
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are projected to cost approximately
$20,000. Past trips have been funded
primarily by students and parents. In
order to make the journey, the students
need the help and the support of the
entire city. According to Ms. Doshie
Clark, community agent at King, "We
want the city and the com m unity to
join us in this effort to make these
children's dream come true.
We are soliciting support in the
form of sponsoring a student, co­
sponsoring a student, paying one
night's lodging, airfare, food for a
week and covering incidental cost
such as tours. Our students deserve
the best. They have worked hard and
should be rewarded," Ms. Clark said.
Anyone wishing to help the Martin
Luther King Choir realize their dream
should contact Ms. Clark at Martin
Luther King Elementary School, 4906
N.E. 6th Avenue, Portland or call 280-
For
a lm o s t
fifty
y e a rs ,
E gyptologist, Dr. Yosef ben-
Jochannan, a retired professor of
history at Cornell University and
presently professor-at-large at Al-
Azar University in Cairo, has been
indefatigable in his efforts to correct
what he perceives as distortions in
the history and heritage of the
African diaspora.
“ I had been told one too many
times, by too many teachers that
Africans had no history,” says ben-
Jochannan. And what made him
disbelieve it?
"I knew that
everybody had a history," he
replies.
“ If (Africans) were fast
asleep for 3,000 years,” he goes on
to add, “ then they have a history of
sleeping. So when they said I had
no history that alone told me there
must have been something to hide."
W hen Dr. Ben, as he’s com e to
be known, began his research on
African history in the early 1940s his
Findings, for the most part, fell on
deaf ears. U nabletofind a publisher
who would publish his work without,
as he says, “ editing them down to
nothing,” he had no alternative but
to self-publish, first from his
apartment and later from offices on
125th Street in Harlem.
Due to the dem ands of his bi­
continental lecture schedule, Dr.
ben-Jochannan, age 70, recently
d is c o n tin u e d
his
p u b lis h in g
operation. However, he has not
stopped writing, nor will his previous
W orks remain out of print.
Black Classic Press based in
Baltimore, Maryland decided to
stand in the gap and made a
commitment to publish Dr. ben-
Jochannan’s new writings and
reprint his existing 30-odd titles,
which include Black Man of the Nile,
W ethe Black Jew s, and The African
O rigin of the M ajor W estern
Religions.
“ Dr. Ben has given us.a large
body of information on important
segments of the Black experience,
world history and our role in it," says
Paul Coates, founder and director of
Black Classic Press. "It is our goal,"
continues Coates, “to preserve his
legacy and make it read.ly available
in a format that is reflective of quality
publishing.”
Black C lassic Press's first
release of Dr. ben-Jochannan's
works is Africa: M other of W estern
Civilization. Originally published in
1971, this 750-page compendium of
lectures and discussions includes
chapters on “ The African Origin of
G reek P hilosophy.”
Racism ,
Historians and Ethiopians,” and
“The Black Man in Antiquity.”
For ten years, Black Classic
Press has been reprinting works by
and about people of African descent
that are, as Coates explains,
“obscure but significant in that they
help fill the many holes in Black
history and historiography.” The
Black Classic Press catalogue
contains some 21 titles, including
The W onderful Ethiopians of the
Ancient Cushite Empire (1926) by
Drusilla Dunjee Houston; African
^szxsacssssssssa
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★ Bom Free
★ Rene of Paris
★ Andre Douglas
★ Zurv and More
★ Carefree
JF/'gs,
Hairpieces
and
Beauty
Supplies
Of NalLflVfi(1907).
In Black Classic Press, Dr. ben-
Jo ch a n n a n found, “ a B lack
publisher who would let me publish
what I wanted - as I wanted it
published.” In Dr. ben-Jochannan,
Coates has found an author with
whom he has been able to “develop
a close working relationship." This
publisher-author compatibility is all
the more important because Black
Classic Press will eventually, in
cooperation with the author, edit Dr.
ben-Jochannan's entire canon.
For more inform ation on Dr. ben-
Jochannan’s books and a complete
listing of Black Classic Press titles
write: Black Classic Press, P.O.
Box 13414-T, Baltimore, Maryland,
21203.
A TEAM O F W INNERS!! Benjamin McLaurin, standing left, Director,
Career Counseling, M orehouse College and Ron Parker, Director,
Employee Relations, Pepsi-Cola South, congratulate seven of the
eight M orehouse students who distinguished them selves working in
the Pepsi-Cola Summer Intern Program earlier this year. The students,
each of whom won a $2,000 scholarship and another $2,000 for
minority education program s fo rth eir college, are, from left, standing,
Anthony Ezzard, Michael Leveresque, Jeffrey Harper and Brian Parker.
Seated students are Richard Pringle, David Bowman and Nigel Lewis.
Pepsi-Cola hired 176 minority interns between 1983 and 1987 and 60
percent of those interns took full-tim e jobs with the com pany upon
graduation.
Celebration...
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The Violence Of Psychiatry
by Alexander R. Jones
Internationally known attorney
John Coale, has filed a $22 million
law suit against a psychiatrist who
recommended the release of a man
who later terrorized Washington,
DC w ith a series of brutal,
methodical murders. By the time
Ricky Brogsdale was arrested and
confessed to his crimes, four Black
wom en lay dead. Several others are
still suffering from gunshot wounds.
This story is not new; only the
actors have changed. A convict
who has undergone psychiatric
treatm ent is released based upon
th e
re c o m m e n d a tio n s of a
“ learned" psychiatrist. The man
prom ptly goes out and brutally
murders innocent people. W hat is
new is that som eone is holding the
psychiatrist accountable for his
actions.
In this particular case, Ricky
Brogsdale received psychiatric
treatm ent while serving a prison
sentence. Later, he was arrested
for a sex offense W HILE ON
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PARO LE, but am azingly was
re le a s e d
based
on
th e
recom m endation of his psychiatrist.
Brogsdale then went on his spree of
murders, and gained infamy as the
"Peeping Tom M urderer” as he shot
his victims in their homes through
ground level windows.
The tragedy here is that the
involvement of psychiatry in such
acts of violence usually goes
unnoticed as the media directs our
attention to the physical violence
itself. W e only see the pictures of
the blood splatter carpets. The
psychiatrist who drove the murderer
to vio le n c e w ith p o te n t and
dangerous drugs goes unseen.
It is no secret psychiatric drugs
actually drive people to violence.
One experiment done on prison
in m a te s
d e m o n s tra te d
th a t
psychiatric drugs w hich w ere
dispensed to calm down the men,
actually sparked a frightening rise in
the incidents of violence. Case after
case, such as the current one,
reveal a direct link betw een
psychiatric drugs and explosions of
violence.
Alexander Ft. Jones ts the Director o f Minority
and Third World Affairs lor thye Church of
Scientology (R) International.
Needs Funds For Christmas
1988 Oregon Oiitstanchhg Teacher-Barry lahrt—
Sprague High School iSalenv
This spring, U S WEST will
again honor a teacher from
each o f 14 western states. These
teachers will be nominated by
you—the student, former student,
parent or associate. The 14 teacher finalists will
receive a $5,000 award. And, three o f the finalists
will be further honored with a one year sabbatical
to pursue educational excellence.
To nominate your outstanding teacher,
simply send for the official U S WEST nomination
packet. Entry forms will be sent for both you and
the nominated teacher to complete.
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S to re Hours:
Walnut Park Branch
10:00 a.m. 'til 6:00 p m.
Monday Thru Saturday
P. O. Box 11346
Portland, OR 97211
Atten.: Clara Peoples
For a nomination packet, write:
Bill Prows
U S WEST Communications
421 S.W. Oak Street, Room 8S9
Portland, OR 97204
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study.
Says W esley Horner of National
Public Radio, executive producer of
KING: AG LO BALC ELEBR ATIO N ,
“ The concert reflects the European
Broadcasting Union's focus on
youth orchestras this year, and also
focusses on the work of leading
black American musicians. We are
proud to share this very special
program with so many listeners
around the w orld.”
Producer of the New England
C o n s e rv a to ry Jazz O rc h e s tra
perform ance is Steve Elman, NPR
m e m b e r s ta tio n
W B U R -F M /
Boston, Massachusetts. Producer
for the New CalArts 20th Century
P la ye rs is P eter R utenbe rg ,
KUSCOFM/Los Angeles, California.
Producer for the Indiana University
Opera Theatre perform ance is
E vans M ira g e a s , W F M T -F M /
Chicago, Illinois.
Oregon's
BestTeacher
Wigland
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Kennedy for the opening of the John
F. K e n n e d y C e n te r fo r th e
Performing Arts in W ashington,
D.C., and it had its world prem iere in
September 1971. The acclaimed
work contains a wide variety of
elements including folk music,
blues, rock, and Broadway.
Indiana University is regarded as
o n e o f th e w o r ld ’s le a d in g
institutions for advanced music
DO YOU KNOW A TEACHER WHO
REACHES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM WALLS?
A teacher who touches something deep
inside and suddenly you understand. And your
world changes. These teachers are America's most
important asset. Our future depends on their dedi­
cation and caring.
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Hats off! the Martin Luther King
Choir for a job well done! We are
supporting you all the way!
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