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Wayne A. Young
 
 
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Wayne Young started Port Of Harlem magazine in 1995 as a collectible item distributed at a black memorabilia and collectible show. The first publication featured a collection of articles that he had written for publications ranging from the Washington Afro-American and Gary Post-Tribune newspapers to American Legacy and UpScale magazines.

He named the magazine after the world’s most famous pan-African community to reflect the magazine’s inclusive, diverse, and pan-African perspective. After publishing annually in black and white for the first four years and biannually for the following four, Port Of Harlem became a full-color, quarterly publication in November 2003. 

To meet the challenges caused by changing reading habits, Port Of Harlem returned to being a biannual publication in November 2009.  It is now completely green and released its first mobile friendly issue June 15, 2015.

As a pan-African publication, Port Of Harlem magazine is the chief business supporter of the Port Of Harlem Gambian Education Partnership, an nonprofit that works with Gambians in the areas of education, community, and culture.

Young started the non-profit after a Gambian friend asked him why so few Blacks participate in the Gambia’s development, particularly via the Peace Corp. Young responded by saying his friend’s children will not have to ask that question. Two of the friend’s children are now involved with the Port Of Harlem Gambian Education Partnership and are readers of Port Of Harlem magazine.

Young was an undergraduate business major at Iowa State University and a graduate marketing communications major at Roosevelt University – Chicago.

 
Media Appearances 
 

Port Of Harlem

November 2011 - April 2012 Print Issue
What Happened to the Retooling of Our Minds?

January 26 - February 8, 2012
Washington, D.C. - Southeast

August 22 - September 5, 2012
Why I Love My President

October 4 - October 17, 2012
Sexual Freedom Summit Encourages Americans to Talk About Sex

Eating Kenyan in Bethlehem, PA

November 29 - December 12, 2012
A New Generation Fighting Oppression - Facing Race Conference

June 13 - June 26, 2013
Obama's Big Gift to Black America

June 27 – July 10, 2013
Surviving the South Pacific

November 28 - December 11, 2013
More Social Security In Your Future?

83-Year-Old Makes First Trip to West Africa

January 9 - January 22, 2014
Long Struggle to the USA

March 6 - March 19, 2014
Even for a Visit, Prison Was No Fun

June 26 - July 9, 2014
Gentrification – Blacks Tricked?

July 24 - August 6, 2014
Religious Revenue Down

August 21 - September 3, 2014
Hot Internet Series: An African City

September18 - October1, 2014
Harlem Rens - Off Broadway

October 2 - October 15, 2014
Africana Book Awards

December 11 - December 24, 2014
The Perfume Chick

January 22 - February 4, 2015
Rehashing 1970?

Win Choir Boy Tickets - Studio Theater

February 5 - February 18, 2015
Bessie’s Blues

July 23 – August 5 2015
Branding Africa?

October 1 - October 14, 2015
3-D Cars on the Road

Uprising

November 26 - December 9, 2015
Akeelah and the Bee – Good Fiction

January 21 - February 3, 2016
Respecting our Ancestors’ Religions

April 14 - April 27, 2016
Book Review: Mr. Okra

July 21 - August 3, 2016
Social Security Expansion on the Table

August 18 - August 31, 2016
New Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Opens

October 27 - November 9, 2016
George Pullman and A. Phillip Randolph’s Chicago

November 10 - November 23, 2016
Your Retirement and Social Security Expansion

December 8 - December 21, 2016
Done with TV News and Papers

December 22 - January 04, 2017
Why An Afrikan Revolutionary Voted for “The Duck”

February 2 – February 15, 2017
The End of White Christian America

March 2 - March 15, 2017
Rev. William Barber - Recovering the Moral Center

May 11 – May 24, 2017
Future Of Wealth Summit Drove Its Point Home

May 25 – June 7, 2017
Highly Engaged Discussion: Post Slavery African Immigration

June 22 – July 05, 2017
DC Gentrification Symposium

An August Wilson Lover’s Must-See

Permission to Feel the Loss

July 6 – July 19, 2017
Tony Browder: "Use the Museum to Become the People We are to Become"

The Sound of DC is Changing: Thoughts on Gentrification

July 20 – August 2, 2017
Welcome to the Ball

August 31 – September 13, 2017
The Wizard of Hip?

Blues Museums Planted Along the Mississippi

September 28 - October 11, 2017
Do You Believe in Hell?

October 12 – October 25, 2017
Our Indian Money

Indrias G. Kassaye – From UN to Film

October 26 – November 8, 2017
The State of Housing in Black America: Own the House, Rent the Car

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been

November 23 – December 6, 2017
African Ancestry DNA Test Winners

December 7 – December 20, 2017
Nina Simone Remembered at Arena Stage

December 21, 2017 – January 3, 2018
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

January 18 – January 31, 2017
Review: Queens Girl In Africa / Ticket Winner: Darlene Houze

March 1 - March 14, 2018
Women of Port Of Harlem

April 12 – April 25, 2018
"Paper Dolls" at Mosaic Theater

Port Of Harlem Readers on Donald Glover and "This Is America"

July 5 – July 18, 2018
The Fugitive Slave Act of 2018?

Inner Light Ministries – Pioneering 25 Years of Change

June 21 - July 4, 2018
Race, Union Busting, and My Inheritance

July 19 – August 1, 2018
Ebenezer AME’s Heritage Weekend Worked Hard to Connect Us

August 2 – August 15, 2018
Van Jones and Alice Marie Johnson at Clemency Is Justice Program

July 16 – July 29, 2020
Lisa and Rasheida Bennett

August 30 – September 12, 2018
Mosaic Theater Was Taken to Church

September 13 – September 26, 2018
Black Women – Claiming a Seat at the Table

I am Man, At Home and Abroad

October 25 – November 7, 2018
The Agitators

December 6 – December 19, 2018
AlHasan Bah – An Active Activists

January 3 – January 16, 2019
"Oh, God"

January 31 – February 13, 2019
It Only Takes One Yes!

March 14 – March 27, 2019
Gambian Publisher Fodeh Baldeh – On Speaking and Writing Perfect English

April 25 – May 8, 2019
Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native

July 4 – July 17, 2019
Twisted Melodies – Donny Hathaway Story on Stage

New Food from Home and Abroad
July 18 - July 31, 2019
New Food from Home and Abroad II 

Black Food Geographies – Race, Self–Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, DC.

August 1 – August 14, 2019
Historic Muslim Conference Focused on Building a Multi-Racial Democracy

August 29 – September 11, 2019
Jamestown Rediscovery Staff Member Accused of Insulting the Ancestors 

September 12 - September 25, 2019
Pagan–Christian–Muslim–African–Britain–Gambian–Brexit
September 26 – October 9, 2019
Meet Buba Camara, Helping to Pull His Community Up By Its Bootstraps

Was Witnessing “Fairview” Part of my Destiny?

October 10 – October 23, 2019
Book Review: What is Africa to You?

Preserving Your History

Mansa Kunda – Authentic Gambian Food in Takoma Park, MD USA




Being LatinX, Muslim, and with Multiple Identities

November 7 – November 20, 2019
Lorato Trok and The Politics and Economics of Language

Click – Top Photographers Offered Cell Phone Photography Tips

Theory @ Mosaic Theater, Very Contemporary

December 19 – January 1, 2020
Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words Exhibition

Passenger Jane Gunter and Attorney Fred Gray Added to Rosa Park's Story

January 2 – January 15, 2020
When Should You Use DNA Testing to Confirm Family History

January 30 – February 12, 2020
Health Insurance Remains a Privilege

Mosaic Theater Delivers the Unexpected with Musa and Sheri

February 13 – February 26, 2020
The Netherlands Search for Relatives of 172 Buried Black Liberators

Hakeem Jefferies, After the Impeachment

February 27 – March 11, 2020
Shipwreck – A Period Piece Classic

Ain't Nobody Infallible – Baldwin's The Amen Corner

March 12 - March 25, 2020
Black Businesses Devalued Just As Are Black Homes

March 26 – April 08, 2020
Creating Families Across Cultural Lines

Vernard Raymond Gray Memorial Celebration – Sunday, July 12, 2020

April 09 – April 22, 2020
World Arts Network and Residency Program Eyes 2021

African Realities and the Corona Virus

April 23 – May 6, 2020
Black Man on the Titanic: An Interview and Book Review

Southern American Black Senate Elections are Bubbling Up

May 07 – May 20, 2020
Children’s Book Reviews with a 10-Year-Old

June 04 – June 17, 2020
This Old House

Perfect Is Not on the Ballot

June 18 – July 1, 2020
Companies That are Surviving Online or Struggling to Get There

July 02 – July 15, 2020
Living Historians “Take Back the Park”

Census, Voting, Surveys: Do Blacks Want to Matter?

Colbert Loses Petition for Drug Treatment; Remains Optimistic

July 30 – August 12, 2020
Looking at Power: Male Privilege/Heterosexual Privilege

Bayard Rustin: Defying the Odds

Samba Baldeh Seeks to Become Wisconsin's First Gambian–American State Legislature

August 13 – August 26, 2020
Are LatinX More Diverse than African-Americans?

September 10 – September 23, 2020
From Barber to Financial Institution Chief

Gone Virtual - How Theater, Genealogy, and Art Meetings Have Changed

September 24 – October 7, 2020
I Got Me a Part in a Broadway Show - The Story of Broadway’s First Black Lead

October 22 – November 04, 2020
Floods Compound Gambia Situation: 18 Child Scholarship Sponsors Needed Now

November 5 – November 18, 2020
Documentary on 1972 National Black Political Convention Shows That Blacks, Too, Have Become More Inclusive

Robbins, Illinois Seeks to Convert Early Black Millionaire Home into Museum

POHGEP Benefits from October Gallery's Online Art Auction & POHGEP has 14 Down, 4 More Donors Needed

November 19 – December 02, 2020
No Lye: An American Beauty Story

Georgia or Bust


America is Not Only Me; Not Only You


December 03 – December 16, 2020
The African World Cheer Lewis Hamilton’s Seventh World Title

December 17 – December 30, 2020
From These Shores: You Can Help Create a New Diaspora History Exhibition

Sadiki Educational Safaris Offers Ethiopian Immersion Program

Ida Jones Supports Renaming DC Wilson High School William Syphax High School

This Is Who I Am – Superior Theater Made JUST for Zoom

December 31, 2020 – January 13, 2021
Gambian Rapper Sparks Outrage Over Image Mimicking Jesus’s Crucifixion

What Will Anti-Trump, for Biden, Voters Do About Mfume?

POH Associate Kevin Turner Transitions (1961-2020)

US Senate Elections 2022


January 14, 2021 – January 27, 2021
Miriam DeCosta Willis (1934-2021)

Michelle Obama: Life After the White House

January 28, 2021 – February 10, 2021
Internal Insurrectionist

POH Gambian Education Partnership: BYDA Builds Road, Amazon Donations Up

New Interesting Art, Children, and Black Fact Books


February 11 – February 24, 2021
I Never had to Apologize for the Space I was Taking: “Hi, Are You Single?”

March 11 – March 24, 2021
Woolly Mammoth's Reset

March 25 – April 7, 2021
Black Lives Matter in Death, Too – Mt Nebo AME Preserves Historic Cemetery

Retire to the World

April 8 – April 21, 2021
Play Review: The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls

Each One, Taught One: Life’s Impacters

May 06 – May 19, 2021
Aging in Place

Dec 2-Dec 15, 2021
Sulaymani Kante: Inventor of N’ko/Mandinka Alphabet

Mosaic Theater Names New Artistic Director: Reginald L. Douglas

Other Publications

Northwest Indiana Times - Gary Makes its Mark at Smithsonian

Black Press USA - Smithsonian’s Black Museum highlights Gary’s history

Black Perspectives - ‘Nationtime’ Shows That Blacks, Too, Have Become More Inclusive

Gary Crusader: Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: Renovating In Gary, IN

1 - Coming Home
2 - Mike Keen, Portage Midtown in South Bend, IN
3 - What’s Driving the American Housing Shortage
4 - Financing and Managing Projects From Afar - Gary and Omaha
5 - Short Term Rental, Marketing/Furnishing
6 - Non-Profit/Cultural Investors Make a Difference in DC and Gary
7 - Pillar Industries Investing in Gary
Climate Change May Be a Plus for Gary and the Rustbelt
9 -.Find the Property
10 – One Year Late, Looking Back

NWI Times: Coming home: 10-part magazine series details importance of residential investment in Gary

Newsbreak: Pillar Industries invest in Gary

WLTH AM1370 FM92.3 - Gary: Minding What Matters

Audio

How Blacks Are Not Responding Well To The Census And How BLM Is Affecting Continental Africans
Black Urban America
July 22, 2020

Black Reality Think Tank Podcasts
May 19, 2020
Our Ancestors Left African People A Guide In Order To Establish A Pan-African Agenda!!! WhyDidn’t African People Implement That Agenda?

EPIC City
Takoma Radio
Feb 22, 2022

Video

By Any Ink Necessary
Wayne Young being interviewed by Judine Slaugher
Sunday, Jun 10, 2018

Perspectives of Interfaith
with Zarinah Shakir
Arlington Independent Media
August 25, 2018

We Act Radio
US Africa Summit Summary Debate
December 29, 2022

Nuestra Comunidad NWI
WLTH-Gary
Fri, Jul 7, 2023

Awards/Public Appearances

Masters of Ceremonies
First Annual Co-Parenting Discussion and Awards
1313 New York Ave, NW 
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Awardee
Footsteps of the Ancestors' Award (20 minutes into video)
The African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute
Saturday, June 8, 2018

Named One of 50 Black History Month: Living Figures of Significance
The Spokeman Newspaper (Morgan State University)
Sunday, February 28, 2021

 
 
 
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