February 2, 2011
The
Portland Observer Black History Month
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Community Events Enrich Black History
Month brings
films, concerts
and lectures
The city of Portland is sponsoring
Black history month with free events
open to thé public, ranging from
historical films and figures, jazz con
certs and musical tributes, African
American biographies, intellectual
speakers and lectures, poet laure
ates of the Harlem Renaissance, and
much more.
against violent
violent racists.
racists. In In doing
doing so,
so,
against
Williams not only challenged the
Klan-dominated establishment of
his hometown of Monroe, N. C„ he
alienatedthemainstreamCivilRights
M ov em en t, w hich ad v o ca te d
peaceful resistance. Documentary
plays Thursday, Feb. 3 at noon at
the Water Pollution Control Lab,
Bybee Conference Room.
film gives
gives the
the long-overdue
long-overdue recog-
recog-
film
nition to one of the seminal figures
of American literature. Margaret
W alker has been described by
scholar Jerry Ward as "a national
treasure" and by Nikki Giovanni as
the "most famous person nobody
knows." Documentary plays Tues-
day, Feb. 15 at noon at the Portland
Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole
R(x>m.
• In Search of History: The Night
Tulsa Burned. Eyewitness accounts,
archival film, and dramatizations
recount the 1921 race riots in Tulsa,
Okla. Film plays Wednesday, Feb.
16 at 11 a.m. at the Columbia Boule
vard Wastewater Treatment Plant,
Mt. Hood Room.
Check your calendar during the
entire month o f February, and mark
down these event dates that you
can't afford to miss!
Community Events
• Black History Month Proclama
tion, Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 9 a.m.,
City Council, City Hall, 1221 S.W.
Fourth Ave.
• Portland’s Lost Black Neighbor-
hoods: Guild s Lake. Vanport City
and others, Wednesday, Feb. 9 at
u 3.?P m to7 :3 0 P m ' KaiserTown
Hall, 3704 N Interstate Ave. Exhibit
of historical photos shows people
and life in once proud communities
devastated by industrial develop-
ment, urban renewal and flood wa-
terS'
Films
. Marcus Garvey; Look for Me in
the whirlwind. Garvey was a vi-
sionary and a manipulator, a bril-
iiant orator and a pompous auto-
crat. In jusl , 0 years fonowmg his
emigration to the United States as a
laborerin l9l7.M arcusG arveyrose
lo ,ead the )argest Mack organiza. • Brother Outsider: The Life of
tion in history, was taken to prison Bayard Rustin. Docum entary pre
sents a a vivid
vivid dram
dram a, a, com
com bining
bining
sents
the personal and the political,
about one o f the most enigm atic
figures in 20th-century Am erican
history. One of the first "freedom
riders," an adviser to Dr. M artin
Luther King Jr. and A. Philip
Randolph, Rustin was intelligent,
gregarious and charism atic, but
was denied his place in the lime-
Music
light for one reason - he was gay.
Film plays Thursday, Feb. 17 at
noon. W ater Pollution Control
Lab, Bybee Conference Room; and
Tuesday, Feb. 22 at noon at the
Portland B uilding, 10th Floor
Lodgepole Room.
• Fatal Flood: In the spring of
1927, after weeks of incessant
rains, the M ississippi River went
on a ram page. Racing south from
Cairo, 111., the river blew away levee
after levee, inundating thousands
of farms and hundreds of towns,
killing as many as a thousand
people and leaving nearly a mil-
lion hom eless. By the tim e it
reached New Orleans, the flood
had not only altered the landscape
of 27,000 square miles, it had w id
ened the abyss of race relations in
the Deep South. Documentary airs
Thursday, Feb. 24 at noon at the
W ater P ollution C ontrol Lab,
Bybee Conference Room.
• Jazz with Thara M emory,
Wednesday, Feb. 2 at noon at the
Portland Building, 2nd Floor, Audi
torium.
• Sherman: A Jazz Opera, Friday,
Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 27, 7
p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sun-
days at Ethos at the Interstate
Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N
Interstate Ave. Tickets are $ 15 gen
eral admission; seniors and students
$10.
• Reception and Musical Tribute to
Black Jazz Music in Portland;
Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 4 p.m., hon-
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in handcuffs, and was eventually
deported. The documentary plays
Tuesday, Feb. 8 at noon in the Port
land Building, 10th Floor, Lodge
Pole Room.
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• H u g h e s’ D ream H arlem .
Langston Hughes was one of the
most prominent figures of the Harlem
Renaissance and is often referred to
as Harlem's poet laureate. This film
shows how Hughes successfully
fused jazz, blues and common
speech to celebrate the beauty of
Black life. Plays Wednesday, Feb. 9
at 11 a.m., Columbia Boulevard
Wastewater Treatment Plant, Mt.
Hood Room.
• George Washington Carver, a
documentary of his extraordinary
journey from being bom a slave to
the end of his life with presidents
and corporate titans.who valued his
friendship. Millions of Americans
benefited from his innovations. His
scientific genius is legendary, but
less known is his remarkable path to
greatness, defined by a life-long
passion for serving others. Plays
Thursday, Feb. 10 at noon at the
Water Pollution Control Lab, 6543 N
Burlington Ave.; and Wednesday,
Feb. 23 at 11 a.m. at the Columbia
Boulevard Wastewater Treatment
Plant, 5001 N Columbia Blvd.
•
• Rob Williams Biography. A dra
matic story of the often-forgotten
civil rights leader who urged Afri
can Americans to arm themselves • For My People: The Life and
Writing of Margaret Walker. This
African American Literature is for everyone! Come
hear local celebrities and community leaders read from
works by their favorite African-American writers at the
15th Annual African-American Read In.
Sunday, February 13,2010
from 2:00 - 3:30 pm
For children and adults.
Hosted by:
Concordia University
Hagen Campus Center
2811 NE Holman Street Portland Oregon 97211
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