July 13, 2016
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Obituary
In Loving Memory
Alberta Moody
Young activists capture counterculture stories ignored by mainstream media using the brand new
medium of portable video in 1969. The Northwest Film Center presents a documentary charting the
path of this underground video collective.
Alberta Moody of Portland died
June 28, 2016. She was born June
14, 1929 in Hallsville, Texas to Ellen
Davis Sloan and Columbus Coby.
In December of 1946 she met the
love of her life Cubby Earl Moody.
They were married on Jan. 16, 1947.
Alberta gave birth to their first born
son in 1948, and they moved to Port-
land and shared a life together for 53
years. To this union 10 more chil-
dren were born.
Funeral services were held July
11 at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church.
Explore the Roots of Alternative Media
Today’s mobile media world,
in which everyone has a camera
in their pocket, started with the
introduction of Sony’s Portapack
five decades ago.
In 1969, a CBS Television ex-
ecutive funded a group of young
activists to capture counterculture
stories that were being ignored by
mainstream news, using the brand
new medium of portable video.
The network ultimately rejected
their radical pilot, but the group,
who named themselves the Vid-
eofreex, stuck together.
The collective’s work—from
interviews with legendary activ-
ists like Fred Hampton and Abbie
Hoffman, to reports on the An-
ti-War, Black Power, and Wom-
en’s Movements, to the pirate TV
station they founded in rural up-
state New York—blazed a trail for
truly alternative media.
‘Here Come the Videofre-
ex’ charts the path of this under-
ground video collective as they
attempt to harness the democratiz-
ing power of portable video. The
film will screen on Sunday, July
17 at 7 p.m. at the Whitsell Audi-
torium, located in the Portland Art
Museum.
Reverberations of Historic Black Events
Join a conversation on the
Great Migration of black families
who fled the south for northern
and western cities, the civil rights
movement, and the reverberations
making her the first black woman mission or $25 for preferred seat-
in the history of American journal- ing, available at albertarosethe-
ism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the atre.com.
first African American to win for
individual reporting.
She spent 15 years researching
her landmark book, The Warmth
of Other Suns: The Epic Story of
America’s Great Migration, inter-
viewing more than 1,200 people
to tell the story of the nearly six
million African Americans who,
between 1915 and 1970, fled the
Isabel Wilkerson
Rukaiyah Adams
of these historic events in Oregon
and the United States today.
Oregon Humanities brings its
Think & Drink series to north-
east Portland for a conversation
between journalist Isabel Wilker-
son and Rukaiyah Adams, chief
investment officer of the Meyer
Memorial Trust.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer
Prize for feature writing for her
work with the New York Times,
South for northern and western
cities in search of a better life.
Adams is a fourth-generation
Oregonian whose family was part
of the Great Migration.
Adams and Wilkerson will
come together for a live, unre-
hearsed conversation at the Al-
berta Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E.
Alberta St., on Wednesday, July
20. The event begins at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $15 for general ad-
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