Royalty Calls
on Madison
Madison senior first
Queen o f Rosaria in
39 years
See story, page 2
Searching for
Sugar Man
A prophetic
outsider voice
finds an audience
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b s p r lip r
‘City of Roses’
community' service
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Portland filmmaker Jordan
Thierry is working to
empower men of color
with his documentary
‘The Black Fatherhood
Project’ which explores
fatherhood past, present
and future.
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Black Fatherhood
Portland filmmaker takes
aim at the complexities
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was a households headed by single-m others. This dis­
crepancy was som ething Thierry says he co u ld n ’t ig ­
nore; there had to be a reason why.
ith Father’s Day coming up this weekend, many
Black Fatherhood Project”.
dads are geared up to receive the all too familiar
The Portland resident said the docum entary was
gifts of ugly ties and pairs of spotless new socks,
sparked by the troubling disparity he noticed am ongst
but first-time filmmaker Jordan Thierry explores some much
his peers; m any o f his Caucasian friends had fathers
more complex traditions of patronage in his debut film “The
present while for his A frican-A m erican friends the norm
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