Port Of Harlem Podcasts

(special two, 30-minute segments) If you are like me, you have seen his images in the New York Times and Essence magazine to The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore and the American Embassy Gallery in Nairobi, but never heard his voice. Well, that my change for many of us as we talk about his 8th book, Sacred Nile, which he completed after nearly five decades of traveling to the Nile Valley: Egypt, S...

Rufus S. Berry II is a Liberian activist and former President of the Liberian Association of Northern California (LANC). He is now living in Liberia and is the managing partner and CEO of Berry and Gaye Financial Consulting. We will talk about the country’s bicentennial, his return to Liberia, immigration issues, and corruption.

Dr. Lopez Mathews, Jr, Digital Production Librarian at Howard University Libraries /Moorland Spingarn Research Center, and I talk about the rapid changes in storage devices from stone, paper, punch cards, floppy drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, ZIP, and cloud and how those rapid changes affects saving every day and archival documents.

Ida Jones provides an update about her  National Votes for Women's Trail Markers  project and Baba-C on his  Storytelling Festival in Morocco  project..

Historian CR Gibbs shares the history of racial dog whistles in America. Background Article: Youngkin, Virginia, and the New Dog Whistles: Three Reports  Birth of a Nation, states’ rights, busing, welfare, disannexation, Willie Horton, defund the police, and Let's Go Brandon are all dog whistles used to signal Whites, some Blacks, and some others, that they should fear the children of the for...

Mosaic Theater's New Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas. Fall has been a good season for Reginald Douglas.  As he is directing White Noise, now in rehearsal, at Studio Theater in Northwest, Washington, DC, across town in Northeast, Washington, Mosaic Theater named him Artistic Director.  So often when we read or talk about theater, we talk about what is most visible, the actors. With...

Chris Jenkins ( POH Subscriber C. Christopher Jenkins' New Children Books ) shares how he fulfilled another item on his bucket list, publisher two children’s book and preparing for the audio version.  Ken Gwira Artist Commissions Creation of Shoes share how he made his dream a reality, having his artwork on his own shoe brand. Port Of Harlem Talk Radio

Sharon Farmer, first African-American woman to be hired as a White House photographer and the first African American and first female to be Director of the White House Photography office, provides tips and techniques that will help you improve your cell phone photography. Our talk is an offspring of a workshop, Click – Top Photographers Offered Cell Phone Photography Tips , she did with George Tol...

Dr. Ogechi Anyanwu is professor of history and director of African and African American studies at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. He just released “The Making of Mbano: British Colonialism, Resistance, and Diplomatic Engagements in Southeastern Nigeria, 1906–1960.” Mbano is a community located in the South-Eastern state of Imo State, Nigeria. The community spans two local gover...

POH Talk Radio Thu, Sep 2, 8p CR Gibbs The Underground Railroad in the Midwest. When some think of the Underground Railroad, many think of conductor Harriet Tubman and the eastern seaboard routes she followed. However, the Underground Railroad had players and routes in what is now the Midwest, including Illinois and Indiana. CR Gibbs will discuss the Midwestern system complimenting the “Road to Fr...

Circa 1850, an international school of racial typology favoring the superiority of Caucasian’s over all people of color had begun to develop and publicly express itself. This international school propagated the pseudo-science of biological and intellectual inferiority of African descended people has been referred to as “scientific racism.” In 1850, Haitian Joseph Anténor Firmin challenged and meti...

Our talk today, Mammy’s Revenge, is partially based in film historian and author Donald Boogle's book “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films,” which he released in 1973. In the book, Bogle describes a mammy figure as "representative of the all-Black woman, over-weight, middle-aged, and so dark, so thoroughly black, that it is preposterous e...

Kevin McGruder, author of " From Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem ," (Columbia University Press, 2021) talks about Payton and his impact on Harlem and the world, and Harlem today. McGruder is also Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of History at Antioch College. Background Information:  In the spring of 1904, the Hudson Realty Company, a firm led by White inve...

What the Ketanji Brown Jackson and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi appointments could represent for the future of the Supreme Court? (Actual recording is 30 minutes, not 1:11:54.) A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Former DC assistant attorney general Rawn James, Jr. has practiced law for two decades in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their two sons. He is...

Sara Stender Delaney, Sarilla Sparkling Tea founder and owner Sara Stender Delaney talks to us about trading fairly with Rwandan tea growers and the impact her products’ consumers are having in Rwanda. Her company reflects her passion, skills, and determination to create quality products for the beverage industry in an equitable fashion.

Marvin Sin , artist and leather craftsmen, who sell his bags and other accessories at private shows and cultural festivals with his wife Akosua Bandele, is now collaborating with a Bahamian on a project in Ghana.  The panAfrican project marries African American design talent with Ghanaian production capacity. Thu, May 13, 8:30p Archivist and historian Dr. Ida Jones, who also identifies as a H...

Through the ASA Restoration Project that he started in 2008 to honor the legacy of the late Dr. Asa Hilliard, Tony Browder has raised funds for the excavation and restoration of two 25th dynasty tombs that Dr. Elena Pischikova discovered in Luxor, Egypt in 2006. (Hilliard was a professor of educational psychology who focused on indigenous ancient Egyptian history.) Both Pischikova and Browder disa...

Port Of Harlem Talk Radio interviews three people, writer Peter Bailey, photographer David “Oggi” Ogburn, and oral historian Dr. Janet Sims-Wood, each whom have impacted Port Of Harlem magazine. We talk about three people they had gotten to know and how those three people impacted them, Malcolm X, Chancellor James Williams, and Dovey Johnson Roundtree, respectively. Also, read the related story, “...

Listen and join in a conversation about historic Mount Nebo African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church's efforts to preserve the historic cemetery, restore the historic church, and offer educational programming. See Black Lives Matter in Death, Too – Mt Nebo AME Preserves Historic Cemetery . Port Of Harlem Talk Radio

Travel Specialist Bernadette Champion of Champion Services Travel. Leisure travel is expected to return first, with consumers optimistic about the distribution of vaccines and with that an ability to travel. " People are Anxious to Travel," says Champion . She will join publisher Wayne Young in an informative talk. Franklyn Malone , Founder & CEO of 100 Fathers talks about the group's Reaction...

Thu, Mar 04, 8:00p Historian CR Gibbs talks about the adventures of Abubakari II and Mansa Musa plus share how he conducted his research, the sources, and the history of those sources. Thu, Mar 04 , 8:45p Lindsay Johnson of the National Black Memorabilia, Fine Art, and Craft Show talks about rescheduling the event to October 16 and 17, 2021 after a forced cancellation of the 2020 show due to the p...

Thu, Feb 18, 8:00p (available Friday, Feb 19) George Tolbert, former United States Senate photographer. Tolbert is also Vice-President of the Exposure Group  African American Photographers Association. Online now is an exhibit of photographs from his group and the FotoCraft Camara Club. The exhibit is called “ Washington DC: City of Interest, City of Change ” on the DC Public Librar...

Juanita "BZB" Britton shares the behind the scene business calculations that led to the closing of her airport stores due to the pandemic and the business tasks of re-opening of the Anacostia Art Boutique in Washington, DC. (great show for current and prospective business owners) Thu, Feb 04, 8:45p DC Shadow Representative to the US Congress Dr. Oye Owolewa talks about the struggle for DC Statehoo...

Nathan Richardson and Dr. Theo Hodge, Jr. Thu, Jan 21, 8:00p Spoken word artist and Frederick Douglass reenactor Nathan Richardson talks about how the current USA crisis compares to those during Reconstruction I. See his article " January 20, 2021 Should Not Be 1863 All Over Again ," in the current issue of Port Of Harlem. Thu, Jan 21, 8:30p Port Of Harlem contributor  Dr. Theo Hodge, Jr. &nb...

Dr. Sekou Franklin, Associate Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University – Nashville, talks with us about the outcomes of the Georgia senate races and the upcoming November 2022 senate races. See  US Senate Elections 2022 . He is also co-author of  Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics . Mike Ghouse is the author of the Ame...