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.
Wayne A. Young
Media Appearances
Port Of Harlem
November 2011 - April 2012 Print IssueWhat 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 SmithsonianBlack 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
8 - 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
April 16, 2024
The Union Station pause damages Gary’s psyche
June 10, 2024
Home Prices Have Soared Sevenfold In Gary Over The Past Decade, As Buyers And Property Investors Have Returned
August 21, 2024
If You Want to Know What is Project 2025, Look at Tennessee 2024
Audio
How Blacks Are Not Responding Well To The Census And How BLM Is Affecting Continental AfricansBlack 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 NecessaryWayne 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 CeremoniesFirst 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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