Dr. Maya Angelou sat down with CNN's Ali Velshi on her birthday to share a few pearls of wisdom. “It's dangerous to whine,” says the 82-year-old. “What you can do is protest,” she continued.

Well-wishers and art collectors gathered at Attitude Exact Galley on Washington’s historic Barrack Row on Capital Hill, D.C. Saturday, May 15 including Rebecca Newman of Takoma Park, D.C. and Dr. Keith Crawford of Bloomingdale, D.C., who are seen here discussing with artist Shaunte Gates (front) of Brentwood, D.C. andhis latest creation.

If you have a print issue subscription, the latest print issue of Port Of Harlem magazine is in your home. The convenience of having the print issue sent to the address of your choice is only $10 for three issues, $19.50 for six issues.

In our most read Snippets in recent times, we asked readers if they would confirm Elena Kagan as a U.S. Supreme Court justice if they were a U.S. Senator. Almost the majority of readers, 47% percent said “No,” 41% said, “Yes,” and 11 percent are “not sure.” This was also the largest participation we have ever gotten in our polls, however, this was the first time no reader left an additional comment.

This Snippet’s question: If the U.S. Senate confirms Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court will consist of six Catholics and three Jews though nearly one in every two Americans is a Protestant. Do you think President Obama should have nominated a Protestant to the Court?

"The Harlem Renaissance: As Gay as it was Black" exhibit continues through Wednesday, June 30 at Florida Atlantic University in Baton Rouge, FL. The title comes scholar Henry Louis Gates, who once said that the Harlem Renaissance was "…surely as gay as it was black, not that it was exclusively either of these."

The exhibit chronicles the leading gay participants in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s including writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston; singers Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith; dancer Josephine Baker; and comedian Jackie "Moms" Mabley.