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Eeionce S ukps Emms H ubs
Luther Vandross,
Coldplay and
OutKast also
honored
(A P) — Luther V andross and
C oldplay stole som e o f hip-hop's
thunder at the G ram m ys, but rap
funksters O utK ast still won album
o f the year for "Speakerboxxx-The
Love Below " and Beyonce took
hom e a record-tying five trophies.
D espite a tightly scripted show
devoid o f outrageousness or spon
tan eity - a m arked co n trast to
today ’ s pop scene - Janet Jackson’ s
Super Bowl breast flash at the hands
o f dance partner Justin T im berlake
rem ained the m ajor subplot S un
day night.
“ I know it's been a rough week
on everybody,” said Tim berlake,
stifling a self-deprecating laugh
w hile accepting the best m ale pop
vocal perform ance aw ard for "Cry
Me a River."
V andross, reco v erin g from a
stroke, w on fo r b est song, best
R&B album and best m ale R&B
p erform ance for "D ance W ith My
F a th e r” ; and best R& B p e rfo r
m ance by a duo o r group w ith
vo cals for "T h e C lo ser I G et to
Y o u ," a re m a k e he d id w ith
B eyonce.
It was the evening’s m ost
sentim ental victory - the R&B
cro o n er's first win in a m ajor
category inhis20-year-plus
career. He was unable to
attend, but sent a vid
eotap ed m essage,
his first public re
m arks since his April
2003 stroke.
Beyonce turned out
to be the queen o f the
ball, tying a record for fe
male artists with her five awards.
But she won none o f the top cat
egories o f song, record or album o f
the year.
T he moody British rock band
Coldplay, up against four hip-hop
nom inees for record o f the year,
won for their song "C locks.”
Rockers Evanescence won best
new artist in an upset over rapper 50
Cent - w ho briefly w alked onstage
as E v an escen ce accep ted th eir
award.
June C arter Cash also won two
posthum ous aw ards, and her hus
band Jo hnny C ash and form er
Beatle G eorge Harrison were also
honored after their deaths.
Beyonce also won best female
R&B perform ance and best co n
tem porary R&B album for “Dan-
Who Was that Black Man?
York in Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Beyonce
Knowles holds her
record-tying
Grammy awards
she won during
the 46th Annual
Grammy
Awards
Sunday in Los
Angeles.
(AP photo)
gerously in Love," and best R&B
perform ance by a duo or group for
her song with Vandross.
Her five trophies tied a record set
by A licia Keys, Norah Jones and
Lauryn Hill for the m ost G ram m ys
won by a female artist.
O utKast, nom inated for a lead
ing six G ram m ys, won three: best
album, best urban/alternative per-
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form ance for “ Hey Y a!” and best
rap album for “Speakerboxxx/The
L ove Below ." It was the first rap
album to win most o f the aw ards in
top categories
O ther m ultiple w inners included
Jack W hite o f The W hite Stripes
and Em inem , with tw o each, and
bluegrass singer A lison Krauss,
w ho had three.
Cosby Nods
to Landmark
Court Ruling
A
(A P )— Bill Cosby got serious
I with 500 ninth-graders at a talk
Filmmaker Ron Craig puts him self around the arms o f York, the
black slave who won his freedom during the famous Lewis and
Clark expedition.
The Interstate Firehouse Cultural
Center Origins Series presents film
m aker Ron Craig w ho will discuss
the history and life o f York, the
childhood com panion and family
slave o f W illiam Clark.
Y ork was the only African-Ameri
can m em ber o f the Lew is and Clark
Expedition o f 1803, and the first
African Am erican o f record to vote.
Craig wi 11 address the impact this
little known explorer made on United
States history and why we know so
little about him.
C raig ’s production com pany.
Black History
Month Films
at MHCC
In honor of Black History
Month, Mt. Hood Community
C o lle g e 's G e o g ra p h y and
Criminal Justice departments
will be showing two films.
“ In Remembrance of M ar
tin,” a PBS documentary hon
oring the life o f Martin Luther
King Jr. and the civil rights
movement will be shown on
Tuesday, Feb. 17 from noon
to 1 p.m. in Room 1553.
“Separate But Equal," a film
detailing theevents leading up
to the U. S. Supreme Court
decision outlawing segrega
tion, will be presented on Tues
day, Feb. 17, from 6 :3 0 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. in Room 1309.
Both film s are free and
open to the cam pus com m u
nity as well as the general
pu b lic. The film s will be
sh o w n
at th e
M HCC
G resham cam pus at 26000
S.E. Stark.
F ilm w orks N orth w est, recently
com pleted a short film titled, “Lewis
and Clark: And W ho is That Black
Man Standing Next to C lark?" and
is in production with a full-length
docum entary, “W ho W as Y ork? A
New Look at the Lewis and Clark
Expedition.”
The discussion is at 7:30 p.m.
W ednesday, Feb. 25 at the IFCC
Theater, 5340 N. Interstate Ave.
Tickets are $ 15 and $8 for students
and seniors. For more inform ation,
call 503-823-4322.
last week com m em orating the
Suprem eCourt's landmark Brown
v. Board o f Education ruling.
"Take that education,” Cosby
told the teens. "D o n ’t tell me it’s
boring. Y ou’ re going to be boring
in about 10 years and you may be
boring w hile y o u ’re sitting in a
cell, because you decided to do
som ething that breaks the law.
W hy? Because you co uldn’t get
a job. W hy? Because you d id n 't
want to give yourself a chance.
W hy? Because you d o n ’t like
yourself.”
T he 6 6 -y ear-o ld co m ed ian
spoke at Riverside Church at an
e v e n t h o s te d by C o lu m b ia
I
U niversity’s T eachers College,
where his son, Ennis, had been a
j doctoral student. Ennis Cosby
was fatally shot in 1997.
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The talk was one o f hundreds
o f events around the country
celebrating the 50th anniversary
o f the 1954 desegregation ruling,
w hich is the official them e for
F ebruary's Black History Month.
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