Page 6 Portland Observer JUNE 22, 1989
PORTLAND PRO-AM BASKET­
BALL LEAGUE
1989 SUMMER PROGRAM
The Portland P ro -A m Basketball League is underw ay fo r the third
consecutive year at the Portland C o m m u n ity C o lle g e Cascade G ym nasium .
The best athletes in Portland w ill be there c ith e r as players o r spectators
because n w ill be the best basketball a va ila b le this side o f the T ra ilb la z e r
season.
T alent from the N B A , colleges, and in ternational league w ill com plete a
regular season schedule each Saturday and Sunday fro m June 10 to July 22.
Games w ill be played at 2:00pm , 3:30pm , 5 :00pin and 6:pm . P la y o ffs w ill
begin on July 23 at the S alvation A rm y .
The e ig h t teams are g e n e rica lly named after N B A mascots. The league
play is governed w ith N B A rules and features the developm ent lo r N B A
referees.
The program has such outstanding c o m p e titio n and entertainm ent that
league hopes to draw a crossection o f people th ro u g h o u t the co m m u n ity.
W ith a ll the p o sitive role models in v o lv e d we hope to also have a positive
influence on young people.
YOUTH UNLIMITED
RECRUITMENT
Y outh between the ages o f 13 to 20 arc now being sought to a u d itio n fo r
Y o u th U n lim ite d ’ s second vid e o p ro d u ctio n . A u d itio n s w ill be held
Saturdays, be g inn in g July 15th, 22nd and 29th, and A ugust 5th, 1989. C a ll
Y o u th U n lim ite d at 284-8082 fo r schedule and location.
The p ro je c t u tiliz e s yo u th in a ll aspects o f the p ro d u ctio n from scrip t
w ritin g to the actual perform ances. A n avenue is p rovided in w h ich youth
can deal w ith real life situ a tio n s through the use o f video.
A ll perform ers selected (w ith the exception o f extras) w ill be paid
S150.00 upon c o m p le tio n o f the production. Y o u th U n lim ite d is a non­
p ro fit Oregon c o m m u n ity based educa tio n a l/vid e o p ro d u ctio n founded in
January 1988, by G lo ria J. F lu ke r. Y o u th U n lim ite d has been funded in part
by the The L e w is and C la rk C hapter o f M a rch o f D im es and Standard
Insurance C om pany.
In A p ril, 1989, Y o u th U n lim ite d com pleted its firs t p ro d u ctio n entitle d ,
1 *‘ Before P a re n tin g ...A S im p le T e ch n iq u e ” w h ic h is being aired on P ortland
C able Access.
Y outh o f c o lo r are encouraged to apply.
Russia and the Ne­
gro: Blacks in
Russian History
and Thought
C a ll 287-9723 fo r m ore in fo rm a tio n o r com e to the PCC Cascade G ym
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¡Perspective
Black Interaction
In Europe II
M y goodness, w hat a fascinating
panorama the w orlds’ history becomes
when yo u r true role is revealed. Let
us m ove fro m Russia to m e rry Eng­
land, H o w interesting that W illia m
Shakespeare’ s character O th e llo , is
draw n fro m that re servoir o f B la ck­
ness that Europe retained fo r all lim e
to come a lte r the A fric a n in vasion by
culture-bearing
M o o rs
in
earlier
centuries.
O f course, that is not the o n ly
reason fo r Shakespeare’ s im m ersion
in to the B la ck m ystique. There were
other elements (fe m a le ) o f the same
dark storm whose in fu sio n o f mathe­
T his L u c y N egro was one o f sev­
eral B lack ladies p o p u la r
w ith fashionable gentlem en and
nobles w ho patronized L o n d o n ’s The
Swan, a p o p u la r tavern on T u rn b u ll
Street. D r. George H arrison, an au­
th o rity on Shakespeare, says that he
fe ll in love w ith L u c y o n ly to lose her
later to the E a r l o f S o u th a m p to n .
T his researcher, lik e another, Dr.
Leslie H otson, says fu rth e r that our
L u cy N egro is “ die o rig in o f the
D a r k L a d y so e u lo g iz e d in
Shakespeare’ s sonnets.”
Sonnet 127
“ In the o ld age B la ck was not
counted fa ir
m atics, astronom y, art and p h iloso­
phy lifte d Europe fro m the m isery o f
o r i f it were, it bore n o t beauty’ s
its D a rk Ages and brought about the
name
B u t now is B la ck b e a u ty’ s succes­
Renaissance. (However, we w ill keep
sive h e ir”
in m in d that, thousands o f years ear­
A llis o n B la k e ly ’ s study pro vid e s an
in trig u in g lo o k at native Russians
o f A fric a n descent and b lack
One Person
Q ui Make
a Difference.
im m ig ra n ts and v is ito rs against
the cultural and social background
o f Russian h isto ry fro m a n tiq u ity
to the present. A b ra m H annibal,
the ingenious m ilita ry engineer;
his descendant, nineteenth-century
w rite r A le xza n d e r P ushkin; thes-
pian Ira A ld e rid g e ; and p ro m i­
Congratulates
Roman Legions who conquered these
lands).
W e note that in the later tim es o f
w h ich we speak now (1594 A .D .),
there were a num ber o f c o lo rfu l and
fla m b o ya n t balls p u t on each year,
checks.
y o u r m o u th
W illia m
Shakespeare you rascal. W e arc in ­
debted fo r m uch o f o u r in fo rm a tio n
to D r. W illia m Scobie, professor o f
English court and royalty. The G ra y ’s
E n d R evels were put on the C h ris t­
mas o f that year, the p rin c ip a l piece
you ca u g h t on ye t? Several years
ago the w o rld ’ s forem ost geneticists
are included am ong the accounts
o f celebrated N e g ro inhabitants
being the b a rd ’ s “ C om edy o f E r­
ro rs” . A n in tro d u cto ry farce cen­
and anthropologists began te llin g us
that they have established beyond
o r visito rs to Russia and the So­
v ie t U n io n .
tered around an A bbess o f C le rk -
e n w e ll w ho paid homage to the K in g
on his day o f coronation. T h is noble
doubt the fa ct that a ll o f m ankind
A m e rica n B o o k A w a rd in 1988,
lady
presented by the B e fo re C o lu m ­
haughty. H er name was L u c y N e g ro
bus F oundation fo r excellence in
and she was in fact B la ck and an A f ­
ric a n .” (Sec Hans W . D ebrunner,
“ was
ta ll,
statuesque,
and
Presence and Prestige: A frica n s in
ce n tu rie s-old re la tio n sh ip w ith
Europe, Basel, S w itzerland, 1979)
b la ck A fric a and A fric a n s in the
diaspora. It is an outstanding co m - J
A 1989 NATIONAL JEFFERSON AWARD Finalist
H ush
R obeson, and p o litic a l activists
George Padmore and Angela Davis
A m e rica n lite ra tu re . I t provides a
sch o la rly exam ¡nation o f R ussia’ s
o f 1*0111:11 id
on her head
I have seen roses d am ask’ d red and
“ W hite,
but no such roses see I in her
s im ila r to our M a r d i G ra s - enter­
tainm ents to parody the affa irs o f the
T h is g ro u n dbreaking study w o n an
MARIAH
IAYIOR
sculptures - and that later many came
as w arriors (and stayed) w ith the
“ I f hair be w ire , B la c k w ires grow
B la ck H isto ry at C ity C o lle g e , New
Y o rk C ity.
nent A fric a n A m ericans, such as
w rite rs C laude M c K a y and L a n g ­
ston Hughes, perform ing artist Paul
K O IN - T V ©
lie r, A fric a n s m ounted documented
expeditions to the British lies to obtain
tin fo r a llo y w ith copper fo r their
Sonnet 130
N o w , te ll me, dear reader, have
today can be traced genetically through
genes to a sing le in d i v id u a l o r source
o f inheritance - an A fr ic a n w o m a n
to whom they have g ive n the name
L U C Y . “ O h w hat a tangled w eb we
weave, when firs t we seek to de­
c e ive ” . M o re on M e r r y E n g la n d
next week.
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