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ageB4____________________________ Il|'|Jortlanì> © b a e ru e r________________________ August n, 2004 Ray Charles Tribute Planned (AP) — Friends o f the late Ray disease. He was 73. Charles will sing his praises during The event will raise money for a tribute concert planned for the the $ 15 mil lion Morehouse College fall. Center for the Arts in Atlanta. Bill Cosby will host and Michael Charles gave the black liberal McDonald. James Ingram, Gerald arts college $2 million to help fund Levert and Angie Stone are slated the com plex, which will contain a to perform at the Sept. 29 concert at performance space in his name. the Beverly Hilton Hotel. “This college is near and dear to Charles, famous for such hit his heart,” Digney said. “He per songs as “W hat’d I Say,” "Georgia formed there, it’s in his native Geor on My Mind” and “Hit the Road, gia, and it was where he received Jack,” died June 10 o f acute liver his honorary degree.” Sunday, August 15th WELLS FARGO su m m er o n c e rt AT THE OREGON ZOO “PLUS” CONCERTS BY J une A costa F orthe P orti and O bserver My Friend James Thomas Jackson Throughout the 300 years o f the importation o f black slaves to the Americas, individuals responded to the influx o f adversity in a variety o f ways. Whether the torment of being transported in the cramped, filthy, stinking holds o f the slave ships while bound in chains, or the long afterwards of being sold to white masters, those certain indi viduals have responded to their miserable circumstances with ex traordinary courage, strength of character, and greatness of spirit. After the formal abolition o f sla very, the Emancipation Proclama tion, signed by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1,1863, there followed in the southern states more than 90 years o f institutionally approved racism. Change only began to take place after the bold stand made by Rosa Parks when she knowingly sat down in the white section o f the bus and refused to give up hear seat, in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1,1955. Envisioning that “big change that was on the way,” as he saw it, was poet, essayist, dramatist, jour nalist, novelist and writer of short stories, James Thomas Jackson. A high school dropout, Jackson dedicated his life to writing, a habit that kept him in poverty; he worked at odd jobs until his death at age 59. He was bom in Temple, Texas. As a boy in Houston, he regularly confronted the reality of coping as a black man under laws that en forced white superiority. It galled James Thomas Jackson and found his ‘niche in the word,’ to quote him from an essay first published in the Los Angeles Times in 1975. The essay, ‘How Waiting in Line at the Drug Store Awakened a Young Black’ became the corner stone for a book, a collection o f all his work titled. Waiting in Line at the Drug Store, published by the University of North Texas Press in late summer o f 1993. The book is now being used in some black stud ies programs. He judged all by the ‘content of their character,’ toquote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a hero o f his. His friends were of many strips and colors. He died in early spring of 1985 in the hospice ward of the W est Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital, three days after doctors predicted he had three months to live. It was as if his magnificent spirit had whispered softly: “Move on brother. It’s time to go.” He was my friend. him, but it never caused him to lapse into victimhood or to feel less worthy as human or equally loved by God. Drafted into a segregated Army in 1943 at the age of 18, he first felt the urge to write. Letters home were as easy as breathing. He began June Acosta is a freelance writer writing letters for Army buddies from Raleigh Hills and retired book earning beer and cigarette money. keeper from south-central Los An After 8 years, he returned home geles. 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