J
T xhlb on focu on th oct I
problems and ius which 11 ct n
urban community. uch a
hom Ie n ss, Ingle p r ntlng.
poverty, nd jobles n . This
exhibition Is the cr tlon of
photogr ph r Charz e Torr nee.
Torrence is currently a student at
Detroit's C nter for Cr tiv
Studl s, and will grad e In April.
T how runs until arch 21, 1993.
I For inform lion (868-134n.
...__----- ---J I WED ESDA Y,
I GING ALTERNATIV S: WAR
OR PEACE? - A P rmanent ARCH 3
col etlon from March 1-11, 1993 at
the Swords Into Plowshares Peace
C nter & Ga lery, 33 E Adam. For
Information (965-5422).
THE VIOLENT UNIVERSE - A
forty-five minute program every
Tues. and Thurs. March 1-25 at
7pm. The program Is narrated by
veteran actor Vincent Price. This
sky show takes planetarium vi Itors
on a tour of 'thlngs that go bump In
th night.' Location: The C rr-Fles
Planetarium of MCC, 221 S.
Ouarterllne Rd In Mu egon. For
Information (777-0289).
A ERICAN LIFE COLLECTION
GALLERY - A howca e for
furniture and decorative Items
reproduced from the museum's
coltectlons. A dealer resource
center provldes gallery visitors with
spec at-order Information and a list
of available sizes, colors and
finishes plus the names of retailers
who n American LJf Collection
products near their home towns.
Henry Ford Museum, 20900
Oakwood Blvd In Dearborn, MI
(313/271-1620).
(313/577-2972).
A PIECE OF MY HEART - By
Shirley Lauro, p rform March 6-22.
This Is a earlng portrait of six
women who leav for Vietnam rn the
spirit of adventure and are
sub quently lowly beaten down
by the reality of bloodshed and
brutality. When the women return,
I they experience many of the same
TUESD,AY, I THURSDAY, difficulties re-adjustlng as do the
" MARCH 4 men to whom they mlnlsted.
MARCH 2 . Inspired by Keith Walker's book of
____________ __, STARTING HERE STARTING oral histories, also entitled A P/eCIJ
, , of My Heert. Earl D.A. Smith
VISIONARY VIEWS: SOCIETY IN NOW - By lyricist Richard Maltby Theatre (McNichol campus).
CONFLICT - The current art Jr. and composer Richard Shire, Brochure available.
exhibition at the Detroit Repertory opens at WSU Studio Theatre on (313/993-1130)
Theatre, (13103 Woodrow Wilson). Mafch 4-14. Tickets are $6. .
Starting Here, Starting Now
Catherine Worth, Chet Holowicki and Dianne Sievers appear in the musical revue "Starting
Here, Starling Now" in the Studio Theatre, located downstairs at the Hilberry Theatre, March
4 thrQugh 14. For tickets and information, call 577-2972. All proceeds go to the Blakely
Scholarship Fund. Photo by Mary Jane Murawka.
continu d from 81
Bridge .and Ford Fairlaine. He
also starred in a pair of network
TV comedies, including the criti-
cally acclaimed N ttitude.
But musi . ha: alway .cn the
m an which M rri expres
hi e . 'nee b st. Atter a rics of
i nt m, tiOlnl concert dates fol
lowing th J ( Tim runion,
Morris took "time [f" t chart hi
next r ativ' 'v lution.
"I wantco t wher I hadn't
been' befor " "i how the artist
summed up hi stra1 'gy r a new
}o album. "it'� an ev r-chang-
ing n out ther " ut it' . nevcr
nou 1h t ju ,t jump on the lat t
tr ml. Y u'v ot to do mething
mm ' ... somethIng t mak it y ur
own. or instan • I want d t d
a lot of hip-hop n thi . album. But
the rap I'm d lin '1 was my wn
thm '... mcthin I'd be'n dev'}
)PIJl for ten y aI'S. II
But rnp is only part f the pure
pi asur' 0 this lat t Morri. Day
ff rin . "I m d in more ing
in "he explain. "I w, nt t get
acr . s a wh le range ol Ie ling
and attitudes, which i wh I I
want d t rnak .ur a f w ballads
w re includ d in the mix. I wa
working n instinct...putting what
worked together with wha: was
hap ning igo't n w, to me and
my music." The re: ult i Guafan
t .cd "This is the album I've ( 1-
way want d to make." enthu es
M irri . " or a long tim I think
.op! aw and heard rn in only
on Ii rht. Thi. i my pportunity
0'
continued from 81
FO R
cc
Ii in the
to how everyone that th rc's a
whol lot of ways to be Morris
Day."
With a izzling new album in
the can, and hi' wn company
G r .cnnous Prod uctions, con
tinumg t d .velop acting and pro
ducmg po sibilitie , Morris Day
i poi ed t pr v that talent, style
and attitude 1 a c mbination that
can ',t b b at. And that s guaran-
te d. '
United Kingd m, O· eal admits
that it' n t enougJt. "This is my
Ii c. I want always be doing this,"
h Y , "when I'm old, I till want
to b sin ing song that make
people feel good, ong that pc pIe
can make I ve to and engthen
relation hips with." I making
quality, pa ionate and r mantic
m JC 1 what k ps AI xander 0 -
eal ing, Lo . � Make No ense
. h uld k cp hi oing, at 1 a t until
his n xt pre �c t.
DC
c.m.r of Pa1Iorm.�
3·3 OJOU
Powerful Wom n Or tor -
SOJour r Truth kn w r m Ion
w om God. S w ed from
podium to podium cro N w
Engl nd, the Ea ern Sa bo rd, th
South, nd Mldw t, proclaiming
Truth bout Negro right , wom n'
right nd hum n right. A
Sojourner for Truth, he fin lIy
ettJ d In B ere, MI. H r Itf
nd ow rful p eche
perform d on our t g ,
demonstrating her strength nd :
wi dom. (70 mlnut •. Or d 4 to 12).
3-4 ESCAPE TO FREEDOM By
Ossle Davis - Frederick Dougl
Insist d on I mlng to r d at tim
when It w III gal for Negroes to
read or write. He kn w reading wa
his true freedom. His plrlt and
determln lon, In spite of Incredible
ob cles, I d to hi car r as one of
th gr e or ora of the 18008.
He spoke out for abolltlon,and
became an advisor to President
LIncoln and we the first Black U.S.
Statesman. (grad .. 4 to 12). '
3-5 MARTIN LUTHER KING - I
Have A Dream (th moral leader of
the Civil Rights Movement) - His
dream and the Civil Rights
Movement are pow rfully portrayed
on our tage with th ongs, the
speeches, and the peopl who
marched with him. See Rosa Parks
ays ·No·. Exp rlence the marches
and the hi orlc events reenacted.
See MLK and his dream come alive.
,
By Tureka Turk And Karen Kelly
The mini eries "Queen" is a tep
ba kwards for the advancement of
fi lrns chronicli ng the life and times of
Black people. The series, based on
an idea of Alex Haley' and the end
ing chapter in the famed novel
"Roots" pampers white viewers by
giving them a reason to believe that
lavery war a dark tunnel with a light
of hope at the end. "true love".
Constantly introducing chara ters
th�. nfirm Bla k tereotypes and
unreali tic portrayal of African peo
ple. "Queen" i another version of
"Gon With thewind", only in black
fa e.
The tory begins on The Forks of
Cypre , a euphoric plantation in
Floren e, where the laves arc treated
o well it justific the pi t of a young
lave girl Ialh ng madly in love with
her master. Easter, played by Jasmine
Guy, consumed by passion and love
for her owner, Jame Jackson Jr.
(Tim Daly). bears a child from thi
forbidden love. The child i called
Qu en.
When th Civil War com ,James
Jack! on Jr., oes to fight for the di 1_
nity of the South. and Easter and
Queen are th completely upper
tive of hi bing a part of fforts to
keep the t�o of them and their peo-
ple opp ed and legaily enslaved.
Consideri ng that 99.9 P reent of
the bicultural children conc ived in
thi time w re conceived out of VI -'
loot and frcq uent -rdP make' CBS'
mim- erie a hard pill to swallow for
Afncan Americans who know the
painful reality. The thought of love
a tually being a �art of a relationship
that r b 'd on the ownership of one
individual ver an th r i incompre
hensible.
vharity Clark, David Ram y, and Stacey Herring, all De
troit residents, appear in � rraine Hansberry's powerful
drama about cultur�identity, integration and family unity,
�A Raisin in the Sun H, playing arch 5 through March 14 at
Ithe Bonstelle Theatre. Perform nces are Fridays and Sat
urdays at 8pm., and Sundays t 2pm. For tickets and
information call 577-2960. Photo b Pat Clay.
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royal pain or
rican Am
T W RD MU TT, usu-
ally atta hed to person belonging t
par nt of differ nt ethnic b k
grounds, lit rally m ans a mule, a
hybrid from a ho and an . The
French and Latin meanin th ub-
ri e to thi definition and the dic-
tionary r lat mulatto a� kn wn
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ncan
for their endurance and ure f oted
ne s.
The term "mulatto" is wed consi -
tently and ca ually throu hout the
film. and throughout di cus 'ion of
. th film. The otlcnsivc term w .
given to the "mulatto" .hildren on the
plantati n 4 years ago by the 'Ia�
mas ter him 'elf and has stained the
English language '\'l;r since.
"Mulatto" like. "quadroon" and
"octaroon" irnpf that African bin d
resembles som type of .ava rc or
bea t blood type. " uadroon" and
" ctaro n", m aning a pers n having
one-fourth or ne-ci hth "ncgroc
blood".
Queen a bicultural child born of
the plantation, I tortured by a con
stant truggle for her wn identity
(She goes from. "Ou .cn, you's
whi te girl now", re erri ng to her pas -
i ng for white, to "I' ra" when' he
find' that th mulatt . 0 the ra re
faced with continual double-edged
sword. When white w n't work
i ng, he became a "ne ra").
African by culture, are nurturin
and communal peopl . but there w
notrace f thcse charactcn: uc inthe
film. Calling Queen nam such (
"white bit h" and con tantly r jcct
i ng her place in the Black community
was not only unreal but unchar eter
i tic of the treatment Bla k peopl'
how(ed' to n ton icultural . hut
light-�kinncd Bla ·k. ( w II. t to
ay that I n m d . mlt ' I t 1 -
tw n different had' f Bla k '0-
pIe but the 0 ert f C on the derual
o one Blacb oman', rol in a Bla k
communal r' k
flav r.'
ethni make-up and one i with a �
whit man who violently rapes her
upon hi di covcry f her bicultural
b kground. The only love he ot in
life arne from Black people. Her
father and white family all di re-
arded h r and were di .graccd by her
hem.
nc of the only Black men in
"Que nil portrayed as being a proud
and confident Black man. ti the
:t .rc type of bein 1 filled with hate.
wen today, a Black man who loves
hims If. and make' it kn wn that he
i: P -Black i u ually marked
anti-white a t rcotypc that is en
for .ed rep atedly in the film. One of
the mai n arguments a ainst the mili c.;
tant movement of the ixtie: includ
ing the Black Nation list m v ment
and the tea hing. '0 Malcolm X,
were that th 'e idcol zics all . ub
sen c to thc teaching of hate. Thi
tervotypc tainted the haract r por
trayal of Queen's fi rst Bla k love th
father of her first n, and ended with
hi. burned body win ring from a tree
lik a trange fruit.
If "Queen" th main tr am
b 'lief 0 m rica' id a 0 'lavery,
then men a 1. well de' tvcd.
h continual force(eeding f
"Go With l Wind" typ tories
that dramatize lav life in �arly
America will result in a rude awak-
nin f r th Am ri 'an p pic. If
r m 'mh 'lin ,,1m' I tOI m TI 'a i
(t� nml' I tahk dncl lomantIc a.
memones I the "dl tntlted ' uth"
and. uthern ho pitality. Am nca is
r mem 'flng an illw'ion that w nt
dO\"n WIth the' n 1 rate fla .