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February 11, 2015
Viola Davis Embraces
Her Sexuality
continued
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ery week. And now, the “How To
Get Away With Murder” star is
opening up about her sexuality in
a recent interview.
Years before landing the lead
role as sexy, intense Annalise
Keating in“How To Get Away
With Murder,” Davis attended
Julliard, where she felt she had to
be something she wasn’t in order
to land roles.
“I always tried to be the 90-pound
white girl. Only because we did a lot
of classical training and all of the
ingénues in Shakespeare were very
small women,” she told Essence
magazine. “So I tried to make my-
self small. Literally. I don’t know
how I did that. I was like thinking,
‘Small. Light.’ I would try to have
a higher voice, which sounds ri-
diculous, right? But I felt like
there’s only one way to be sexy.
It’s almost like I felt like I had to
disappear.”
But now, the Screen Actors
Guild award winner is thrilled to
have the opportunity to embrace
her sexuality on screen each week.
“It feels really good to embrace
exactly who I am and be my sexy
or be my sexualized. To be my
woman, you know?,” she said.
“And it’s been the joy of my life.
It really has and I think it found me
at the right time of my life.”
Leaving Black Youth Out
continued
from page 3
Parents Initiative, and six other
black leaders representing social
justice, civic and educational or-
ganizations., the letter called out
the governor’s budget for ignor-
ing disparities that exist in the
black community.
“You present the millions of
dollars you intend to use to sup-
port special interest initiatives for
rural youth, low-income youth,
English language learners, Native
American youth support, Latino
youth, but no special initiative for
one of the highest needs group of
students in Oregon,” the leaders
wrote.
Copies of the letter were also
sent to House Speaker Tina Kotek
who represents north and north-
east Portland in the Legislature,
and Senate President Peter
Courtney. Both responded by
asking for time to speak with the
Urban League about putting to-
gether a plan for the issues they
raised.
Local activist Ron Herndon, the
executive director for Albina Head
Start , also signed the letter and
gave voice to the frustration he
has when government budgets
that are supposed to help those in
need seem to bypass black com-
munities entirely.
Last year, for example, he said
$300 million was set aside for Head
Start programming in Oregon. The
Albina Head Start chapter, which
serves the highest percentage of
black children in Oregon, was not
awarded any of that money.
“I know it was competitive fund-
ing, but we simply asked for what
many other chapters were asking
for – we wanted to expand our
program by 60 students,” says
Herndon. “We were denied any of
the funding, and all of it went to
areas with a higher concentration
of white children. The black com-
munity saw the least of that.”
Herndon said Kitzhaber should
follow the lead of Portland Mayor
Charlie Hales who put his office
behind the Black Male Achieve-
ment project.
I know he comes to the meet-
ings. That’s all we want, is for our
officials to show concern for us.
The fact that the governor has not
responded while everyone else
has speaks volumes on its own.”
The Portland Observer called
the governor’s office for comment
on the Urban League complaint
but a response was not immedi-
ately available.