May 01 – May 14, 2025
Urban Dilemma: Unloved Investor vs. Badly Needed Income
We are poised to construct a massive light industrial, warehouse, office (flex) building in the midst of a struggling Black Community, said Kwabena Sakidi Jijaga Rasuli. However, John Allen approved the new investment. "Too many locals do not believe they pay more in rent, taxes, and services because so much of our land is '"not used,"' and the population is low and mostly fixed income."
Three Things You Must Know About Selling To Younger Buyers
While Troy Harrison wrote this from a business to business (B2) sales perspective, Port of Harlem sees how is applies to general older–younger communications including publishing and operating a non–profit. And yes, we use WhatsApp.
The Expatriate Jazz Genius Who Opted Out of Greatness–and Didn't Regret It
Don Byas was an American saxophonist who played alongside Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie yet remains an underappreciated figure in jazz history. At the height of his career, Byas left the U.S. for Europe, eventually settling in Amsterdam with the woman who would become his wife. Byas's decision to leave America in 1946 slowly erased him from jazz history
The Waiting Room a Stage Play Synopsis
While incarcerated, Tyrone Colbert wrote for Port of Harlem for decades. Now a free man, Colbert penned "The Waiting Room," based on the true story of an educated woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man and forms an unlikely bond with three women she meets in the prison waiting room.
Activities
See History Online: Bound to Feel: Personhood from Slavery to Abolition in Brazil and Cuba on May 7. A Tribute to Judith Jamison is in Newark on May 9. The next Harlem Arts Stroll is May 10. In DC, the U.S. Air Force Rock Band "Max Impact" will be hosting Rock and Roll legend Chubby Checker. Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies, and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!) is a Woolly Mammoth from now until June 1.
Readers' Trends
What a mixture of diverse subjects our readers chose as their favorites on our various platforms. We are glad to see that the image of contributor Tyrone Colbert with Port of Harlem publisher Wayne Young and writer Carolivia Herron is popular, and we hope Colbert's latest contribution, "Waiting Room, a Stage Play Synopsis," is equally embraced.