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BLACK HISTORY MONTH and the American Experience
Matt Dishman Center Celebrates
In celebration of Black History
Month, the Matt Dishman Com ­
munity Center, 77 N.E. Knott St.,
will host a free event Saturday,
Feb. 18 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Participants can enjoy music,
food, arts and crafts, plus a trib-
ute to civil rights icons Rosa Parks
and Coretta Scott King. Special
guests, including A. Halim Rahsaan,
Joyce Harris, the Humboldt Elemen­
tary Readers and Congregation
Choir, will join the celebration.
“W e’re continuing the Black
History Month celebration, and it’s
nice for the community to come out
and have a good time," said Jock
White, teen council coordinator for
Portland Parks and Recreation.
For more information, contact
White at503-823-5200.
Katrina Housing Center Closes
The Interim Housing Center
for Hurricane Katrina survivors
in Portland, on the site o f the
fo rm e r W a sh in g to n H igh
School in southeast Portland,
had its last day of operations
last week.
Information on services avail­
able to hurricane survivors and
the entire community is now avail­
able by calling 2 1 1, a local informa­
tion and referral resource or 503-
222-5555.
Local officials said about 500
hurricane survivor fam ilies have
been placed in permanent hous­
ing in and around Portland since
the center’s inception shortly af­
ter the Aug. 30 hurricane devas­
tated theG ulf Coast of Louisiana,
M ississippi and Alabama.
Many Portland-area organiza­
tions, community groups and indi­
viduals came together at the center
to provide resources, information,
and compassion to serve those in
need during a time of crisis.
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The newly named Martin Luther King Jr. Loaves & Fishes Center is powered by local residents,
including (from left) volunteer Nelly Coney; Travis Sango, a volunteer driver for 18 years; kitchen
coordinator Mae Kofi; kitchen manager David Lomax; and Christel Kilpatrick, a meal site steering
committee member for 10 years.
Meal Site Named for
Martin Luther King Jr.
T h e N o rth e a s t L o a v e s &
Fishes C enter is being renamed
the Martin Luther King Jr. Loaves
and Fishes Center with perm is­
sion from The King Center in
Atlanta.
A rededication cerem ony was
scheduled W ednesday, Feb. 22
at 3 p.m. with State Sen. Avel
Gordly as keynote speaker; an
invocation by the Rev. Johnny
Park IV of Fellowship Missionary
Baptist Church; and a perfor-
mance by the St. Andrew N ativ­
ity Elem entary School Singers
under the direction o f Liala Rob­
erts.
The meal site opened in June
1991 in sid e the N o rth east
Multicultural SeniorCenterat5325
N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.,
combining several smaller Loaves
& Fishes Centers in the north and
northeast Portland area.
The center serves more than
250 meals daily to seniors in their
dining room and through the
M eals-On-W heels program.
Since 1970, Loaves & Fishes
has provided a nutritional and
social lifeline for seniors, through
30 meal sites in M ultnom ah,
W ashington and Clark counties
and M eals-O n-W heels delivery
to homebound seniors. With the
help o f more than 6,600 volun­
teers. the nonprofit agency now
serves 4,000 meals dai ly and more
than I million meals each year.
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Journalists Honored for Black History
Contributions
cited in new
exhibit
( A P)— The first book written by
ablack person. America’s first black
newspaper. The Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s signature on the Time
magazine issue naming him “Man
ofthe Year” for 1963, the year of his
“I Have a Dream" speech at a his­
toric civil rights march in Washing­
ton.
These items and dozens of other
works featuring blacks in journal­
ism and their contributions to the
profession are on display in the
nation’s capital for Black History
Month in connection with the Na­
tional Museum of African Ameri­
can History and Culture, which is to
be built on the National Mall near
the Washington Monument.
“T hroughout several cen tu ­
ries, black contributions to jo u r­
nalism have been critical to edu­
cating and inform ing an entire
class o f people about events in
its own com m unity _ events ig­
nored or largely neglected by the
white press in A m erica,” said
Mark E. M itchell, a collector of
black memorabilia.
A 29-cent spiral notebook bear­
ing author Alex Haley's name is
said to document the writing of the
final portion of his first major work,
“The Autobiography of Malcolm
X." Haley, who died in 1992, also
used the n otebook to record
progress on his other writings, in­
cluding “Before This Anger." That
was the working title of what be-
The signature of
Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
on a copy of
Time Magazine
naming him as
1963 Man of
the Year is
featured in an
exhibit of black
journalism.
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came his epic book, “Roots,” in
which he traced his family to one
African man.
When the book “Poems on Vari­
ous Subjects, Religious and Moral”
was published in 1773, it was the
first written by a black person
Phillis Wheatley, who was kid­
napped from west Africa and trans­
ported to Boston where she was
bought by John Wheatley.
The exhibit includes copies of
abolitionist newspapers, along with
various news pages announcing
milestones in black history, includ­
ing Jackie Robinson breaking
baseball’s color barrier by joining
the Brtwiklyn Dodgers in 1947,
C assius Clay (now known as
Muhammad Ali) winning boxing’s
world heavyweight championship
from Sonny Liston in 1964, and
King’s assassination in 1968.
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Allen Temple Anniversary
Allen TempleCMEChurch, 4236 Sunday, March 6, also at 4 p.m. a
N.E. Eighth Ave.,celebrates its 57* Friends and Family worship ser­
Anniversary under the theme "Re­ vice will be held with Pastor C’.T.
deemed For the Purpose of Doing Wells of Emmanuel Temple Full
Good Works. ”
Pentecostal Church as the guest
A memorial worship service will speaker.
be held Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m.
For inform ation, call Allen
with guest speaker Elder Roy Maxie Temple Senior Pastor Dr. LeRoy
of Church of the Living God. On Haynes Jr. at 503-287-0261.
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