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Brandy May Get Charged
T he C alifornia H ighw ay Patrol
recom m ended M onday that ac
tress-singer Brandy be charged
w ith m isd e
m e a n o r ve-
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slaughter in a
freeway crash
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Brown Not Buried Yet
A full month after Jam es B row n’s
d e a th , th e
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m a te -c o n
trolled room at his hom e in Beech
Island, S.C. See story, page A2
Shiite Worshipers Killed
A ssailants struck Shiite w orship
pers in three Iraqi cities Tuesday,
killing at least 36 people in bom b
ings and am bushes during the
clim ax o f cerem onies m arking
A shoura, the holiest day in the
Shiite calendar.
B.B. King Recovers
Legendary bluesm an B.B. King,
81 w as hospitalized Friday for a
low -grade fever follow ing the flu
but was in good condition.
Tram Opens to Public
T h e P o r tla n d A e r ia l T ra m
o p ened for routine service M on
day a fte ra grand o p en in g w ee k
en d d u rin g w hich an e stim a ted
10,000 people w ere trea ted to
free in tro d u cto ry "flig h ts" on
the c ity 's n ew est p ublic c o n
v ey a n ce .
Oregon No. 2 Destination
O regon is the N o. 2 d estin atio n
n atio n ally fo r p eo p le m oving
from o th e r states, ac co rd in g to
a study by U nited V an Lines.
T h e com pany found that 4 ,600
p eo p le headed fo r O regon in
2 0 0 6, ranking the state ju s t b e
h ind No. 1 N orth C a ro lin a.
Freightllner Lays Off Jobs
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Wednesday • lanuary 31, 2007
Jefferson Leader Rolls with Changes
Principal Leon
Dudley credits
retreats, parent
involvement
by S arah B lount
T he P ortland O bserver
W hen principal Leon Dudley took the
helm at Jefferson High School last fall, the
com m unity’s hope for new leadership was
mixed with uncertainty because o f the past.
D udley dived into his position, quickly
enforcing new rules and saying he refused
to accept mediocrity.
A half a year into his jo b and his no-
nonsense style has earned adm iration from
many and reported disputes with staff. But
D udley says he isn ’t concerned with o pin
ions. He plow s on with a leadership style
based on relationships. T h at’s the priority,
he says, before Jefferson can turn around.
T hrough countless exam ples he points to
com m unication as the key.
“ I’m visually im paired," he says, "but I'm
an excellent listener.”
Last sum m er Portland Public Schools
superintendent Vickie Phillipscherry-picked
Dudley from applications across the coun
try to replace principal Larry D ashiell, who
led Jefferson from 2002 to 2(XX>.
Phillips chose D udley because o f his
track record at urban schools sim ilar in
photo by S ean O ’C onnor /T he P ortland O bserver
student body size, dem ographics and sub Jefferson Principal Leon Dudley interacts with students and staff in the hallways o f the north Portland school.
sequent difficulties.
By accepting Jefferso n 's top jo b . D udley
D udley claim s he never reads w hat is
hovers around 570, dow n from around I .(MX) tered image o f the school. Bud press began
to overshadow S eptem ber's optim istic a r written about him. He also freely admits he
inherited one o f the toughest - and most in the late 1990s.
scrutinized - positions in Portland. He ap
But before the first bell had rung, media ticles and a Portland Tribune reporter d e must still work to earn the trust o f his staff.
proached the school year with a focus on reports exposed enough dirt to com plem ent tailed D udley as the subject o f a sexual and
continued
on page A 6
rebuilding the student population, which
D udley’s professional history with their tat- racial harassm entclaim .
Movement
Lives on
in Photo Exhibit
Black Panther
photos at
Reflections
by S arah B lount
T he P ortland O bserver
P ortland photo jo u rn alist Eve
Crane once spent a year with her
cam era in Los A ngeles and San
Francisco, chronicling the Black
Panther Party during a revolution
ary time o f sw eeping social change.
For a project m ore than 40 years
in the making, C rane has archived
hundreds o f her photographs taken
during the 1960s. A collection o f
these photos from 1967 and 1968
h av e been ch o sen fo r e x h ib it
throughout February for Black H is
tory Month at Reflcctions/Talking
Drum Coffee and Books, 446 N.E.
Killingsworth St.
Through her intim ate perspec
tive o f the Black Panthers, Crane
captured som e o f the most pow er
ful m om ents o f the Civil Rights
m ovem ent. Her photographs o f
continued
on page A3
photo by S arah Bi.ot nt /T iie
P ortland O bserv er
Portland photojournalist Eve Crane shows one of her historical photographs of the Black Panthers.
Her collection o f photos from the 1960s Black Panthers era will be on exhibit at Reflections/
Talking Drum Bookstore throughout February in honor o f Black History Month.
Focus on Civil Rights, Art and Jazz
Julian Bond
kicks off
local events
Civil rights leader and N A ACP
chairman Julian Bond kick offs Black
History M onth at Reed College this
w eekend with a lecture on "Civil
Rights: In the Day, T oday, and
Tomorrow."
Also included in the southeast
Portland college celebration is an
exhibit from the late African Ameri
can photographer Jacob I^iwrence.
a jazz perform ance by the Randy
W eston Q u a rte t, a le c tu re on
T h elo n io u s M onk by historian
Robin D.G. Kelley, and a presenta
tion o f "The Incredible Journey o f
Jazz" in cooperation with the P ort
land Jazz Festival.
Julian Bond will speak on Friday,
Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. a, R eed 's Kaul
Auditorium.
A leader for social change for
five decades. Bond helped to found
the Student Nonviolent C oordinat
ing C om m ittee w hile a student at
historically black M orehouse C o l
lege during the early 1960s. He was
co-chair o f a successful challenge
delegation to the 1968 D em ocratic
Convention and served in the G eo r
gia Legislature.
Julian Bond
Since 1998, he has served as
ch a irm an o f th e b o ard o f the 2002. he received the prestigious
NAACP, the oldest and larges,civil N ational Freedom A w ard. The
rights organization in the U. S. In holder o f 23 honorary degrees.
Bond is a distinguished adjunct ing hours, call 503-517-7935.
O th e r
re p r o d u c tio n s
of
professor at A merican University
in W ashington, D.C. and a profes Law rence's w ork— including mu
sor o f history at the University o f seum ex h ib itio n p osters o f his
"Migration o f the American N e
Virginia.
“Confrontation at the Bridge." gro” series and tw ochildren's fxxtks
an original silkscreen print by Jacob that he illustrated will also be on
Law rence will be on view at Reed display.
The Randy W eston Quartet will
from T hursday, Feb. I through
perform Saturday. Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. at
W ednesday, Feb. 15.
The print depicts the civil rights Kaul A uditorium.
For six decades, W eston has
march from Selma to M ontgomery,
Ala. on March 7. 1965, when pro rem ained one o f the w orld's fore
testers met with brutal resistance m ost p ia n ists and c o m p o se rs.
on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and W idely regarded as a m usical inno
vator and visionary, he w as named
were forced to turn back.
The print was a gift to Reed from a National Endow m ent for the Arts
the C onair Corporation, and is par, Jazz M aster in 2001. Bom in New
o f the perm anent co llectio n o f York and immersed in a rich musical
Reed's Douglas F. Cooley M em o
continued
on page A6
rial Ar, G allery. For specific view