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Page 10 July 21, 2021 C LASSIFIEDS /B IDS Portland Public Schools (PPS) Human Resources Department is seeking talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences to lead change to support PPS students. We are seeking an Employee and Labor Relations Manager to make a lasting impact on our school district by supporting employee performance management, conducting investigations, and providing staff coaching/training. Portland Public Schools (PPS) Chief of Staff Office is seeking a First screening will occur on July 28, 2021 at 3:00pm. Business Operations Specialist & Complaints Coordinator. This position will serve as an essential team member of the Chief of Staff Team and will be responsible for providing high-level and confidential administrative support to the Chief of Staff and track reports from community members. 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For more information and to apply, please visit https://portlandplayhouse. org/get-involved/work-with- portland-playhouse/ Advertise with diversity in The Portland Observer Call 503-288-0033 ‘Summer of Soul’ C ontinued froM P age 7 er, he knows what he’s got, and knows how to maximize its im- pact—in a skillful two hours, he shows us an array of jaw-drop- ping performances, and splices them with just the right amount of context to keep us hungry and amazed. We understand that this is all happening one year after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy, four years after the assassina- tion of Malcolm X in Harlem. We are reminded of the uprisings across American cities, including Manhattan, the previous year, and understand that the neces- sary government support for this event may have been motivated by a desire to keep Harlem res- idents peaceful and occupied. We understand where this is hap- pening—in Harlem, an epicenter of emerging Black fashion and culture and also government ne- glect, poverty, and problematic drug use. Tulchin’s five cameras offer us glorious access to the beautiful crowds of Black faces of all ages, beaming and moving to the music, “the ultimate Black barbecue,” in the words of one witness. It’s a Blacker crowd than many of these artists ever got to experience, and we see how that impacts their performances. One can’t experience this film and miss the importance of what is happening here—including that almost no one, including Thomp- son himself, had ever heard of the Harlem Cultural Festival be- fore this film. He wants us to understand that what happened here was revolutionary—and, as reflected by the film’s subtitle (a nod to Gil Scott-Heron’s wonder- ful lyric, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” well worth a listen just now)—that what happened those six weekends in 1969 was part of a transformative and powerful awakening, and that like many transformative and powerful awakenings before and since, it could not, would not be televised. That was not neutral. It cost the artists, who missed out on the boost from exposure that came to the Woodstock artists. It cost the millions of us who could have witnessed and been healed by this offering of Black bril- liance long before now. And yet, with the characteristic resilience of Black culture, more Black bril- liance has resurrected it for us. And now it meets with universal acclaim. There is so much here to savor. Thompson has cannily offered us glimpses into the reactions of some of these artists to watching this footage after 50 years—Mar- ilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. of the Fifth Dimension watch, visibly moved, remembering what it meant to perform for this audience, having been criticized by Black people for not being Black enough because of their success on the pop charts. Glad- ys Knight recalls the revolution- ary fervor that welled up in her as a young artist. Mavis Staples speaks of what it meant to her to share a microphone with her idol, Mahalia Jackson, and de- scribes the context for a moving passing of the torch. Rev. Jesse Jackson, who also was there and introduced their joint rendition of “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” the off-requested favor- ite of the recently murdered Dr. King, gives a glimpse of the toil, suffering, and courage aligning across generations in that mo- ment of shared struggle. Nina Simone, though not here to nar- rate a reflection, speaks directly and just as resonantly all these years later when she pointedly asks the assembled crowd, “Are you ready, Black people?” and intones, with purpose, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.” Let us not overlook the more difficult parts of what is offered here by Thompson and his many collaborators past and present, including Tony Lawrence (who cut an impressive figure presid- ing over the proceedings in an impressive array of suits and costumes but who faded into obscurity within a few short years). This gorgeous, heartfelt thing happened. A revolution was happening; it was felt, and even captured on film. It was, as one witness describes, “like a rose coming up through con- crete.” And then that rose was crushed, erased—and now, after all this time, resurrected. One of the most moving things for me was watching the reactions of Musa Jackson, a man who was present at the event when he was six years old, and who speaks with particular joy of his experi- ence and of how smitten his six- year-old self was with Marilyn McCoo. In the end, he marvels through tears at seeing his mem- ories resurrected in the film. “I knew I was not crazy—but now I know I’m not. And not only that—how beautiful it was.” As someone who knows the pain of beautiful offerings ig- nored and erased, Jackson’s joy stirred my own hopes. Even when the revolution cannot be televised, perhaps it will not be erased forever. Darleen Ortega is a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals and the first woman of color to serve in that capacity. Her mov- ie and theater review column Opinionated Judge appears regularly in The Portland Ob- server. Find her review blog at opinionatedjudge.blogspot.com.
