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  April 9, 2004 - April 22, 2004

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  Africana Woman

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Visit POH Booth at the
Black Memorabilia Show and Win

Stop by the Port Of Harlem and Ida Clowney Creations booth at the Greater Washington, D.C. Black Memorabilia and Collectible Show to pick up your free copy of The Black Woman's Guide to Menopause by Carolyn Scott Brown - - as featured in the February 2004 - May 2004 print issue. We will reserve a copy for you until 5pm, the day of the show.  To reserve a copy, click here.

Also at our booth:
  • Get a signed copy of Africana Woman: Her Story Though Time ($40).  Author Cynthia Jacobs-Carter will be on hand from noon to 3pm.
  • Karomoh Kabba, Port Of Harlem contributor and author of Lion Mountain: Perilous Evolution of the Den, will be on hand to sign his book.  Read Kabbas' Tears of the Dens, a dramatic snippet from the civil war in Seirre Leone, in the February 2004 - May 2004 print issue.  He will be there from 10a-noon.
  • Learn about our exciting February 2005 trip to the small, intimate, West African country of The Gambia.
The Montgomery County Fairgrounds, 16 Chestnut Street (I-270, Exit 11), hosts the annual event Saturday, April 10 from 10a - 7p.  Admission is only $5, free for children under 12.

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Jazz Vocalist Sendy Brown
 at Prince George's Plaza
Jazz vocalist Sendy Brown will perform tracks from her debut CD, Secrets of the Soul, at Karibu Books in Prince George's Plaza, Saturday, April 17 at 2p.

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Honoring Our Ancestors Rally - April 17
The rally led by the Washington Interdependence Council is holding the event to muster support for four proposed African-American commemorative sites in the nation's capital:
  • Patriot's - to honor the Black soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War including the first man to give his life for the American cause, Crispus Attucks
  • Martin Luther King 
  • Benjamin Banneker-
  • National Museum of African-American History and Culture
The rally is Saturday, April 17 from 10a to 4p at Banneker Overlook Park, along the L'Enfant Plaza Promenade, 10th and Independence, SW - Washington.
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Reader Comment on Yellowman
I took my 12- year-old son/grandson, whom I've had since birth, to see it. [I took] him to let him know and get the feeling of the color line as it existed when I was growing up and that is still happening behind closed doors.  

The play was emotional.  The actors who played Eugene and Alma performed as though they were truly going through the real thing.  As Red Foxx once said, "if you were Black and wanted to date a yellow woman, you had to be damn near White."

Barbara A. Young
Washington, D.C.

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Fences Opens at Round House Theater


The Round House Theatre is presenting August Wilson's Pulitzer PrizeFences and Tony-Award winning Fences through Sunday, May 2.  The three-hour drama is the story of Troy Maxson, an aging former Negro Baseball League player. Hassan El-Amin plays Maxson who first directs his frustrations with life on his son Cory, and aspiring college football player.

Lance Coadie Williams' (Cory) persona appears too weak at the beginning of the production to play an aspiring teenage footballer.  However, after Cory reaches adulthood and returns from the Marines, Williams delivers his role with authority - - which in hindsight  - - symbolizes the confidence Cory developed after leaving his father's oppressive shadow and Cory's maturity.   William's ability to make the transformation stunningly brings Wilson's character to life.

The fence that Troy builds on the realistic and picturesque stage put together by Daniel Conway  is symbolic of the fence that Troy builds that separate him from Cory and eventually others in his life.  While all the characters manage to deliver Wilson's substantive dialogue convincingly.  Wilson gives many of the best lines to Troy's wife, Rose, played by Nadine Mozon,  She took the opportunity to deliver Wilson's lines with very strong conviction.

The Round House Theatre  is off Wisconsin Avenue, NW, just blocks north of Washington's Mazza Galleria, on East-West Highway in Bethesda, Maryland.  For information call 240-644-1100.

Photo: Rose (Nadine Mozon) listens to Troy (Hassan El-Amin)  talking to his best friend Bono (Donald Griffin).
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Angie's Doll Boutique -
Going Out of Business Sale

After 28 years, Angie's Doll Boutique is closing its doors.  During April, all goods are 30% off marked prices.   The sale is at 1114 King Street in Old Town Alexandria.  Angie's will remain open Tuesday thru Saturday, 11a-5p.  Reach them at 703-683-2807.  However, you can still find Angie's Doll Boutique at trade shows in the Black Memorabilia and Collectible Show.

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POH On-Line Hits 500 Mark

During March, our on-line version registered more than 500 hits per day.  An all-time record high!  Most readers visit PortOfHarlem.Net every other Fridays, between 4p and 5p.

Our most popular page is our Oct. 9 Snippet, with about two in five readers of that page clicking to a link to the Us Helping Us page which features the story, "Black Men on the Down-Low and the Women in Their Lives " Us Helping Us is a print issue advertiser. 

Other print issue advertisers also have web pages that you can access via
www.PortOfHarlem.Net/advertisers.html. We will release the additions of new one in the next Snippet.

Many on-line readers come to this site after searching for the following, in order of popularity:

•    Men on the down low
•    Black men on the down low
•    Adam Clayton Powell IV
•    Rahsaan Bahati
•    Washington Deluxe Bus Company
•    Port Of Harlem