Port Of Harlem Podcasts

Dr. Dwayne Dyce, chair of the Jamaica Diaspora Education Taskforce, appears on Port Of Harlem Talk Radio, Thursday, December 24, 8p-8:45p.  He illuminates his experiences growing up without a father, his search for his father, and its unexpected outcome. Dyce will also share how his childhood experiences affect his parenting his daughter. Read his article “ Growing up Fatherless, Yet Becoming...

Historian CR Gibbs returns to Port Of Harlem Talk Radio after being guest on our most popular podcast episode to date. We will focus this talk on the hidden Black history on the birth and life of the Electoral College . We hope to broaden the discussion to include related voting and power issues such as DC and other territories statehood proposals and run-off elections. During the final 15 minutes...

" No-Lye: An American Beauty Story " director Bayer Mack is best known as the publisher of the late-1990s, early-2000s urban website HOT 104.com and is a member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). The Middle Tennessee State University journalism major currently lives in Louisville. "No Lye: An American Beauty Story," chronicles the rise and decline of the...

Byron Lewis made his mark in advertising with UniWorld Group, Inc., the agency he created in 1969. In 1972, organizers charged Lewis with supervising advertising and media strategies for the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, IN. Rev. Dena Holland-Neal of Peace United Church of Christ in Merrillville, IN. will join Lewis as she recalls being a teenager at the convention with he...

Historian CR Gibbs talks with POH Talk Radio about the history of voter suppression. Read his article "Black Voter Suppression, Then and Now ." During the final 15 minutes, Mercer Redcross, owner of October Gallery , talks about the Virtual 35th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo and the State of African-American Art Meeting. PORT OF HARLEM TALK RADIO

We will broadcast our fifth episode Thursday, October 15 and feature Dr. Ida E. Jones, who just penned “ Mary McLeod Bethune, True Democracy, and the Fight for Universal Suffrage ” for The Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission. The Archivist at Morgan State University talks with POH Talk Radio about the history of the women’s right to vote and Vice President nominee Kamala Harris. Jones is also a...

Nija Okoro plays Florence, Charles Gilpin’s wife, in the just released “The Black Emperor of Broadway.” The film is about Gilpin who in 1920 became the first Black to play the lead in a Broadway show and in a time when Whites would often play Blacks in “blackface.” Many may know the South Bronx native from The Deuce (2017), Animal Kingdom (2016), and Insecure (2016). She also played Rena, Youngblo...

A Boston native, Ric Murphy is a genealogical researcher, educator, historian, and author of several books and historical publications including “Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia.” His family lineage dates to the earliest colonial periods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Jamestown, Virginia. His is also Vice President of History with the African American Historical and Genealogical Society...

On Thursday, September 3 at 8pm EST, We Talk Productions presents Port Of Harlem Talk Radio. Host Wayne A. Young talks with Dr. Ida Jones, University Archivist at Morgan State University, and Sandra Schulberg, president and executive director of IndieCollect, which saves American independent films. With you, they will discuss the finding and restoration of NationTime-Gary, a film on the 1972...

Milagros Philips and Samba Baldeh appear on the  inaugural POH Talk Radio show, Thursday, August 20, 8p eastern standard time. To call in, dial or click "Current Show" to hear or to write a comment. It all starts Thursday, August 20, 2020. At the start of the program, we talk with Milagros Phillips. She is a speaker, author, and coach, who has spent the past 20 years facilitating race literac...