Jan 23 – Feb 05, 2025
What To Know About Tariffs
After the end of World War II, many of the world’s major economies signed an agreement called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that reduced tariffs in favor of policies that encouraged increased trade in goods and services between countries.
A Memorial Field for Those Who Died of Racial Violence
A Memorial Field is an online commemorative to people killed in an incident of racial violence, 115 of them specifically. Each memorial resembles a gray tombstone and with a click, displays the back of the monument that succinctly tells the story of the person’s racially-motivated killing.
A Slightly Different Look at Colonialism and Slavery (Part II of II)
Surprisingly, I learned of the West Indian Regiment and that battles were not restricted to African versus African, Europeans versus Europeans, or Africans versus Europeans, but also West Indians versus Africans and that a contingent from the Regiment retired in The Gambia and some went to St. Vincent, West Indies, circa 1841.
Podcast with EJ Brock: King David, Trump, and More
We have published at least nine hot-topic Biblical stories by EJ Brock, such as her latest, "The Evangelical Right, Trump, King David, and What’s to Come," with no reader resistance - until this week. We also talk to Brooks about Bishop Budde, who called on trump to show compassion for LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities.
Thank You for the Funds – Our Performance is Up, Too
Thanks to Genell Anderson of AMAR Group LLC for her $200 donation to Port of Harlem magazine, our total collected is $455! We have also taken measures to reduce costs. We renegotiated our Internet fees, making them 19 percent lower for at least the one year. Generally, the magazine continues to perform above average. More than 49 percent of our subscribers opened the last issue in their email boxes, compared to the all industry average of 36 percent.
Activities
Port of Harlem will be in Paramaribo, Suriname, for the Sophie Redmond en Wij conference starting Feb 1. "GUAC" is at Woolly Mammoth Theater in DC, and ""A Raisin in the Sun" at the Court in Chicago. The 2025 Black Men's Brain Health Conference starts in New Orleans on Feb 4. We hope to see the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's exhibition in Richmond on the Julius Rosenwald Schools.
Readers' Trends
An image of Bishop Mariann Budde and a reference to the POH article: "Stories of God Using Women to Do What Men Were Afraid to Do" by EJ Brock got a lot of attention. On our newest POH Podcast, we talk with Brock about Budde, the article, and more. See whose cowrie shell necklace got attention, but many missed the suspected message.