September 30, 2015
Minority & Small Business Week
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Black Panthers Party members brought a cultural and political awakening to America and their generation.
Special Screening of Black Panthers Film
Hollywood
Theatre
hosts event
to support
NAACP
The Hollywood Theatre in
northeast Portland will host
an advance screening of a new
Black Panthers documenta-
ry and a post film panel of
local civil rights activists as
a fundraiser for the NAACP
Portland chapter. The spe-
cial event will take place on
Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m., the
day before the theater begins
a regular run of the movie on
Oct. 9 with multiple show
times offered.
“The Black Panthers: Van-
guard of the Revolution” is
the first feature-length docu-
mentary to explore the Black
Panther Party, its significance
to broader American culture,
its cultural and political awak-
ening for black people, and
the painful lessons wrought
when a movement derails.
The story is told through
rare archival footage and in-
terviews with the people who
were there: Police, FBI infor-
mants, journalists, white sup-
porters and detractors, and
Black Panthers who remained
loyal to the party and who left
it.
Featuring Kathleen Cleav-
er, Jamal Joseph and count-
less others, The Black Pan-
thers is a vibrant chronicle
of this pivotal movement that
birthed a new revolutionary
culture in America. Directed
by veteran African-American
filmmaker Stanley Nelson,
the film took seven years and
a Kickstarter campaign to
complete, before premiering
at the 2015 Sundance Film
Festival this past January.
At the Portland advance
screening, 100 percent of the
Hollywood Theatre’s box of-
fice proceeds will benefit the
NAACP Portland chapter.
The evening will include a
fundraising raffle and a post-
film panel moderated by Jo
Ann Hardesty, president of
NAACP Portland.
The panel will also feature
Kent Ford, co-founder of the
original Portland Black Pan-
ther Party, Rev. Dr. LeRoy
Haynes of the Albina Minis-
terial Alliance Coalition for
Justice and Police Reform
and a former Black Panther,
and activists from Portland’s
chapter of Black Lives Mat-
ter.
Tickets can be purchased
for $10 each at hollywoodthe-
atre.org/the-black-panthers-
vanguard-of-the-revolution.
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