POH talks with CR Gibbs about Abubakri II’s Voyage and why he thinks there is so much interest in the explorer and his journeys. His article on Abubakari and the mystery of his voyage from current day Gambia to current day Brazil remains very popular for those searching the web and landing on our page. After publishing the article in February 2021, we are going to finally revisit the subject audibly. Note: When answering a question, Gibbs referred to this book: "Mysterious Explorer: Solving the Puzzle of an African Explorer in America - - 180 Years Before Columbus by Dr. Ronald Stewart." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Intersting interview about Nigeria's 2023 elections. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

POH talks with Olaiya Temitope Templer, News Editor at The Guardian Newspapers, Nigeria, one of Nigeria’s most respected newspapers, if not the most respected. We talk about Nigeria's February 25 general elections for president, vice president, and members of the Senate and House of Representatives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

STEM Program Producer Denise Smith-Archer Denise Smith-Archer is an engineer, educator, artist, and co-author of “Black Gems in STEM: An Academic Success Workbook.” We talk to Smith-Archer about the book and how she brought the book alive during week-long summer enrichment program at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Bird Photographer Charles Chuck James While rehabbing from cancer in 2008, Charles James of Bowie, MD found refuge in taking pictures of birds. Aside from his Facebook postings, some of his photos have even been showcased at the Patuxent National Wildlife Visitor Center Gallery and featured in their newsletter. We talk to James about how he found his hobby and its affect on his health. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Our guest for this podcast is Dr. Theo Hodge, Jr., Medical Director of the Washington Health Institute and Port of Harlem contributor. Dr. Hodge is especially interested in the study and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and an outspoken proponent of HIV prevention. Today, we will take about another disease, in particular, monkeypox. As of today, nearly 38% of monkeypox cases are among Black people, yet Blacks represent only 12% of the US population. We will also talk about these disparities and the vaccine.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Join Port of Harlem publisher Wayne Young and Port of Harlem contributor Kennedra Tucker in a 30-minute discussion on “Recipe for Change: Amplifying Black Women.” Tucker has written for Port of Harlem magazine since she was in high school - - 22 years ago. Today, she is a K-12 health and physical education specialist pursuing a doctorate in school system leadership at the University of Maryland – College Park and is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Educational consultant. Well, we hope everyone had a chance to watch the episode of “Recipe for Change” in which we provided. If not, we will try to share enough of the show to those who saw the show can easily recall the discussions and those who did not, can follow. The show gathers celebrities, chefs, activists, and creators around a dinner table for necessary conversations. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Sheryll Cashin, a law professor and former White House staffer, has spent nearly three decades grappling with US residential segregation and resulting racial inequality. Her most recent book, “White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality” reflects these decades of examination and analysis. She recently was featured in an CNN.com analysis of affluent, majority-white Buckhead seeking to secede from Atlanta. At the invitation of Chairwoman Maxine Waters, she will be testifying on residential exclusion and what to do about it Fri, Oct 15. We talk with her on the next Port of Harlem Talk Radio. 2022 Episode 30 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Join Douglas Wilson, a seasoned political consultant, and I as we talk about the get-out-the-vote strategies to increase Black men's midterm turnout in light of the Supreme Court’s Roe decision. Douglas is an activist, author, and political professional who has run races nationwide at the local, state, and federal levels. He served as regional field director for President Barack Obama’s primary campaign, political director and vice president for the North Carolina Democratic Party, and the Charlotte City Council. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Lorato Trok is an early literacy consultant and expert in developing reading for pleasure books for young children, especially in African languages. She has 20 years' experience in publishing, writing, translation, editing and story development in children's literature. She also penned The Incredible Quest to Preserve a Dying South African Language for Port Of Harlem magazine and featured in Lorato Trok and The Politics and Economics of Language. Trok’s Against The Odds: The Story of Rosina Sedibane Modiba is available in the US and other countries and now in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Africa Book Club. 2022 Episode 28 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Liberian-American Roberta Nina Sebode Brown Cooper has traveled the world as an international flight attendant and discovered African cuisine. Her quest and determination to introduce and educate her world on African cooking led her to write AFRICAN FOOD IS…A Culinary Journey. She also serves as the President of the Marylanders for Progress (Liberia), Inc. She appears at a book signing at Zawadi’s in DC on Saturday June 4, 1p-3p. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

Eric Ruffin director of Mosaic Theater's Marys Seacole Playing a Mosaic Theater Wed, May 4 – Sun, May 29 Mary Seacole was a Jamaican born nurse who historically rivals Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War (1853 to 1856). “The actual story is about motherhood …,” says Ruffin, “who will take care White women and their families … at the expense of their own families.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

(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, Sudan, and Ethiopia. 2022 Episode 25 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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.. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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 formerly enslaved Africans. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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 Douglass, we talked about his past and current theater jobs to get a better understanding of the many efforts that go into making what we see on stage and what is to come at Mosaic Theater. Port Of Harlem Talk Radio --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support

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 Tolbert at the Alexandria Black History Museums. The event was co-sponsored by The Exposure Group African American Photographers Association, Inc., which she is a proud member, the Alexandria Black History Museum, and Port Of Harlem magazine. Port Of Harlem Talk Radio --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/port-of-harlem-podcasts/support