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Catherine Abrams - Entertainment
Gregory F. Bearstop - The Middle Passage
Tyrone Colbert - The Other Side
Carroll "C.R." Gibbs - Praising the Past
Theo Hodge, Jr., M.D. - Health |
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Ida E. Jones - Book Review
Philip J. Merrill - Praising the Past
Sherry Ways - Our Space
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Catherine Abrams contributes to Port of Harlem's "Entertainment" department.
 Catherine Abrams fondly remembers attending her first concerts –
James Brown, the Jackson 5 and the Richmond Symphony Orchestra –
as a young girl growing up in Central Virginia. In school,
Catherine studied music and played the clarinet for the concert and
marching bands. Still passionate about music, she has broadened
her interests to include other art forms including film, theater,
and television and travel, sports and literature.
She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of
Virginia before earning a law degree from the University of
Baltimore School of Law, where she was President of the
Entertainment, Art and Sports Law Association. As a member of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, she is involved in the Arts and
Letters Committee, which showcases talent in the visual,
performing and literary arts for the cultural enrichment of the
community.
Catherine currently works for a financial services regulator. She
is an avid volunteer who tutors adult learners for Literacy
Volunteers and Advocates in Washington, D.C.
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| Gregory F. Bearstop contributes to Port of Harlem's "The Middle Passage: A Story of Survival" department.
 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has twice featured Gregory F.
Bearstop's book Happiness That is Guaranteed. As an inspirational
speaker, therapist and spiritual guide, he has helped hundreds of
people transform their lives as they journey from alcohol and drug
abuse and dependency to recovery.
Bearstop holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from
Washington Theological Union and is a certified master addiction
counselor. He has been a licensed clinical alcohol and drug
counselor for more than 10 years and a substance abuse counselor
for more than 20 years. Bearstop is currently the manager in the
Prince George's County (MD) Health Department for the District and
Circuit Court Assessment and Case Management Unit.
He co-hosted Turning Point, an Annapolis, MD-based addiction
recovery talk show. Bearstop's dream is for all of us to become the means through which the sufferings of other people are lessened to the greatest extent possible.
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Tyrone Colbert contributes to Port of Harlem's "The Other Side" department.
 T. Michael Colbert is a Washington, D.C. native, raised in suburban Columbia, Maryland. After high school graduation in 1980, he served in the U.S. army domestically and abroad.
An addiction to drugs lead to the honorably discharged veteran’s incarceration. While incarcerated, Colbert developed a passion for writing and has contributed to Port of Harlem since 2000. In Port of Harlem, Colbert focuses on prison issues and provides an eyewitness look at life behind bars. In 2005, he studied journalism at Taylor University via a correspondence course.
His stage play, Skin Deep, won the 2002 WMAR-TV- Baltimore and Arena Players Drama Competition. In 2006, the Baltimore Screenplay Competition awarded him honorable mention for his screenplay, Paranoid.
Colbert is also a member of the Jessup Correctional Institute Incarcerated Veterans Group, which helps organize the prison's annual Walk-A-Thon fundraiser, has published an anthology of writings by veterans and works with the Veterans Against Drugs and Violence program.
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Carroll "C.R." Gibbs contributes to Port of Harlem's"Praising the Past" department.
 He is the author/coauthor of six books and frequent national and
international lecturer on an array of historical topics. He has appeared
several times on the History Channel, French and Belgian television, and
wrote, researched and narrated "Sketches in Color," a 13-part companion
series to the PBS series, The Civil War, for WHUT-TV, Howard
University television station.
The Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum and Center for African
American History and Culture features Gibbs among its scholars at the
museum's Online Academy website. In 1989, he founded the African History
and Culture Lecture Series whose scholars continue to provide free
presentations at libraries, churches, and other locations in the
Washington-Baltimore area. In 1997, he led 26 people across Africa.
In 2009, the Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust honored Gibbs
for his more than three decades of articles, exhibits and presentations on
the military heritage of Africans and African Americans.
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Theo Hodge, Jr., M.D. contributes to Port of Harlem's"Health" department.
 Born in Washington, D.C., Dr. Theo Hodge, Jr.'s parents raised him in nearby Prince Georges County, Maryland. He attended college and medical school at the University of Virginia. Following a residency in Internal medicine at Georgetown University / Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dr. Hodge completed an infectious diseases fellowship at the Washington Hospital Center / Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
On completing the fellowship, Dr. Hodge entered private practice where he focuses on the care of the HIV infected. He holds an academic appointment at the George Washington University Hospital as assistant clinical professor.
Dr. Hodge is actively involved in a variety of community endeavors to increase HIV awareness and has offered his services in public clinic settings to care for underinsured / uninsured HIV infected patients. He is actively involved in multiple speaker bureaus dedicated to educating healthcare providers in the management of the HIV infected.
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Ida E. Jones contributes to Port of Harlem's"Book Review" department.
 Dr. Ida E. Jones is currently the Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and an adjunct professor in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Maryland at College Park.
She holds a Ph.D. in American history. Her areas of interest revolve around African American religion, women and archives.
She has appeared on DC News channel 8, BBC radio and CSPAN. Dr. Jones is a consummate public scholar who seeks to inform the public about the gravity history and historical studies have on everyday life.
Dr. Jones is currently the National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians. In 2008, she coedited Emerging Voices and Paradigms with Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. In 2009, she curated Claiming Her Citizenship: Black Women in American History, an online exhibition for the National Museum of Women’s History. She recently released her first book The Heart of the Race Problem: The Life of Kelly Miller.
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Philip J. Merrill contributes to Port of Harlem's"Praising the Past" department.
 Dr. Philip J. Merrill is a nationally recognized expert in African American history and material culture. His specialties include African American historical research, oral history and collecting and interpreting cultural artifacts. An appraiser with the PBS television show Antiques Roadshow for six years, he lectures extensively on African American history.
The owner of an extensive and eclectic collection of Black Americana, Merrill has exhibited widely at museums, schools and universities, national conferences and a variety of other settings. His presentations emphasize the accomplishments and positive contributions that African Americans have made to American society over the course of its history.
Merrill has authored two books, The Black America Series: Baltimore and The Art of Collecting Black Memorabilia, and edited a third, The Black Battalion That Built the Alcan Highway, by William E. Griggs. Merrill founded and owns Nanny Jack & Co., which produces lectures and exhibits pertaining to African American history.
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Sherry Ways contributes to Port Of Harlem's"Our Space" department.
 Sherry Burton Ways, founding principal designer of Kreative Ways &
Solutions, LLC, has been designing residential and commercial
interiors since 2004. As a certified Feng Shui designer and
certified interior environment coach, Ways is passionate about
designing interiors using Feng Shui, wholistic, color therapy and
eco-friendly techniques to create environments that positively
affect and reflect the lives of those who live or work in the
places she helps create.
Home and Design magazine recently featured Way’s Feng Shui designs
in their 2011 Top 100 Interior Designer Portfolio. The Washington
Times, WUSA-TV and Port of Harlem magazine have also featured her
creations. During an interview on WPFW-FM, Ways offered listeners
Feng Shui design tips.
The Philadelphia native earned her Master's Degree from Morgan
State University and completed additional interior design studies
at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Ways is a member of the
National Advisory Committee of the Certified Environment Coaching
Program.
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Wayne A. Young contributes to Port Of Harlem's "Publisher's Point" department.
 Wayne A. Young was a disc jockey while studying business
administration at Iowa State University. He completed his
graduate degree in Marketing Communications at Roosevelt
University in 1984.
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 change in reading habits, Port of Harlem returned to biannual publication in November 2009 and to annual
publication in November 2011.
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