Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, March 31, 2004, Page 9, Image 9

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    March 11. 2004
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(Elje 'Portlanò
Page B3
Focus
Jennifer Dworkin (above center) has a produced a documentary featuring Love Hinson and her family surviving in poverty in the
modern urban environment.
photo by J ennifer D workin
LOVC CMCÌ D ia n e , an Urban Portrait
Jennifer D w orkin’s “Love
and D iane” airs on PBS on
W ednesday, April 21 at 9 p.m.
in a spring edition o f public
telev isio n 's groundbreaking “cy cle o f p o v e rty ,” w hich
P.O .V. series.
haunts many urban women and
“ Love and D iane” puts a single mothers. The docum en­
hum an face on the expression tary follows one family through
poverty, ad d iction, broken
hom es and a crack cocaine
epidemic, which plagued many
inner-city A frican A m ericans
in the 1980s.
Festival, th e 2003 M TV News
“ Love and D iane” w on the D ocum entary A w ard and the
2002 G old Leopard A w ard at TruerThan Fiction Award from
the Locarno International Film Independent Spirit in 2(X)3.
CANNON'S
‘This Heated Place'
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Encounters in the Promised Land
(FORMERLY CHUCK HINTON'S)
Journalist and m edia critic Deborah
peace activists w ho continue to push for co ­
Cam pbell traveled to Israel, the G aza Strip
existence; the settlers w ho w ant no part in
Catering & Take-Out
and the W est Bank to create an honest
that; husbands and w ives in the occupied
O ur S pecialty :
territories w ho want a better life for their
R eai H ickory S moked B ar -B-Q
view o f the conflict in the M iddle East.
‘‘This Heated Place" tells her story.
children and the youth who w ant to live like
C am pbell show s how both sides in this
their peers in the W est.
conflict are saturated in im ages, slogans
and constructs from the m ass media.
Her book attem pts to get beyond the
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“T his Heated Place” is touted as a signifi­
cant contribution to the understanding of
the civilian lives caught up in the Israeli-
m edia saturation and m anufactured co n ­
Palestinian conflict and the m edia lens which
sent on both sides to show readers the real
continues to frame the war.
lives o f non-com batants, civic leaders and
T he book, published by D ouglas
dissenting voices. C am pbell interview s the
M cIntyre, is available now in paperback.
&
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“Sunday Morning at Momma's House " celebrates one of the
most important African-American traditions — family mealtime.
Family’s guiding
force told through
granddaughter’s eyes
multi-family dw elling where Robin
Leigh lived alon g w ith h er g ra n d ­
m other, m other, and o th e r fam ily
m em bers. M om m a, the fa m ily ’s
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tim e w as the tim e o f day w here all
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M om m a’s place at the head o f
the table was a place o f pow er and
security and as she shared with the
“Sunday M orning at M om m a's
H o u se" is a book that cele b ra tes
the I i fe o f Ethel Lee M i I ler and one
o f m any fam ily trad itio n s - S u n ­
day m orning b reak fast. T he story
is told through the ey e s o f her
g ra n d d a u g h te r, e ig h t-y e a r old
R obin Leigh.
T he M iller fam ily hom e w as za
entire family how much they were
blessed, she taught the family how
to pray for those less fortunate.
Then it w as o ff to church for Robin
Leigh where she soon began to
anticipate "M om m a’s glorious Sun­
day dinner.”
T he a u th o r is R obin M iller
Ingram, a native o f Philadelphia.
She is an educator and cham pion
for many ch ild ren 's causes. The
b o o k 's illustrator is Lynette Doreen
B row n, a g rad u a te o f T em p le
U niversity’s T yler School o f Art.
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