Port Of Harlem Gambian Education Partnership

07/29/2026

FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO FOREVER LINK YOUR NAME WITH A HISTORY-MAKING, DECOLONIZATION PROJECT

This is your final opportunity to forever link your name with a history-making, decolonization project that will inspire generations. Stand with us—make your donation today and become an enduring part of this extraordinary legacy.

We named the three donation levels after the commodities that Gambians traded with Europeans, aside from humans.

Gold ($1,000)
- Omar Ceesay and Jennaba Badgi (Peace Corp Moniker) - Maryland, USA
- Maggie Louise Hearon Young (posthumously) – Indiana, USA

Ivory ($500)
- Anonymous – Maryland, USA

Beeswax ($250)
- Williams-Brown - Washington, DC
- Ivan Brown - Washington, DC
- Bernadette Champion - Maryland, USA
- Dr. Keith W. Crawford – Washington, DC, USA
- Virginia A. Farquharson – New Jersey, USA
- My Gambia - Kerr Serign, The Gambia
- Ronald Lewiswis - Washington, D.C.
- Michael Ricks – Idaho, USA
- Kathleen Trent – Texas, USA

Final Opportunity to Forever Link Your Name With A History-Making, Decolonization Project
https://portofharlem.net/snippets26/jul082026-trans%20atlantic.html

07/29/2026

FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO FOREVER LINK YOUR NAME WITH A HISTORY-MAKING, DECOLONIZATION PROJECT

This is your final opportunity to forever link your name with a history-making, decolonization project that will inspire generations. Stand with us—make your donation today and become an enduring part of this extraordinary legacy.

We named the three donation levels after the commodities that Gambians traded with Europeans, aside from humans.

Gold ($1,000)
- Omar Ceesay and Jennaba Badgi (Peace Corp Moniker) - Maryland, USA
- Maggie Louise Hearon Young (posthumously) – Indiana, USA

Ivory ($500)
- Anonymous – Maryland, USA

Beeswax ($250)
- Williams-Brown - Washington, DC
- Ivan Brown - Washington, DC
- Bernadette Champion - Maryland, USA
- Dr. Keith W. Crawford – Washington, DC, USA
- Virginia A. Farquharson – New Jersey, USA
- My Gambia - Kerr Serign, The Gambia
- Ronald Lewiswis - Washington, D.C.
- Michael Ricks – Idaho, USA
- Kathleen Trent – Texas, USA

Donate: https://portofharlem.net/snippets26/jul082026-trans%20atlantic.html

05/30/2026

As we celebrate America250:

Wayne Young of the Port Of Harlem Gambian Education Partnership (POHGEP) and Ric Murphy of the Society of the First African Families of English America (SOFAFEA) proudly ask everyone to actively affirm a shared commitment and join us in ensuring that the full American story is told.

Additionally, POHGEP hopes our African, particularly Senegambian, cousins join us in embracing the inheritance left by the men and women presented in the “West Africans in Early America” exhibit and by all the Africans who made the United States of America what it is today.

“West Africans in Early America” was made financially possible by donors like you.

Abaraka (Mandinka) Jaramma (Pular) Jërejëf (Wolof) Thank you (English)

West Africans in Early America
https://pohgep.net/culture/westafricans

01/13/2026

Trans-Atlantic Human Trading and The Gambia’s Overflowing Significance

The European Scramble for Africa - The 1889 Agreement

Watercolor, color pencil, and ink on mixed media paper by
Hampton Olfus Jr Washington, DC USA

Coming to the Juffureh Slavery Museum | The Gambia

Funded by readers, like you: pohgep.net/donate
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Exhibition Major Donors, Consultants, and Creators

Gold ($1,000)
- Omar Ceesay and Jennaba Badgi (Peace Corp Moniker) Maryland, USA
- Maggie Louise Hearon Young (posthumously) – Indiana, USA

Ivory ($500)
- Anonymous – Maryland, USA

Beeswax ($250)
- Isabelle Williams-Brown, Washington, DC USA
- Ivan Brown, Washington, DC USA
- Bernadette Champion - Maryland, USA
- Dr. Keith W. Crawford – Washington, DC USA
- Virginia A. Farquharson – New Jersey, USA
- My Gambia, Kerr Serign, The Gambia
- Ronald Lewis, Washington, D.C. USA
- Michael Ricks – Idaho, USA
- Kathleen Trent – Texas, USA

01/05/2026

Famed Senegambian-American poet Phillis Wheatley did not explicitly describe her birthplace in her own writings. Historians infer she was born around 1753 in West Africa, likely in present-day Gambia or Senegal, based on ship manifests and contemporary accounts.

Jabel Ceesay
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Methodist Special School Gambia

The U.S. Postal Service is honoring Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), the first author of African descent in the American Colonies to publish a book, with the 49th stamp in the Black

12/28/2025

12/27/2025

Happy Kwanzaa
Kujichagulia (Self-determination):

During the Sunday, March 5 opening ceremonies for the “From These Shores” ( www.pohgep.net/culture) exhibit at the Juffureh Slavery Museum, Hassoum Ceesay, Director General, National Centre for Arts and Culture in The Gambia, proclaimed, “This exhibit raises the museum’s standard to a new level.” The historical markers the exhibit crosses include Africanization, appearance, and internet presence.

In addition to calling the exhibit in the colonial language, English, the display is also titled in six local languages, Mandinka, Serer, Wollof Jola, Aku, and Fula. The exhibit is also titled in French, the colonial language of the neighboring sister nation Senegal. “For the first time, the museum’s exhibit has been decolonized,” declared Ceesay.

www.pohgep.net/donate

12/26/2025

Happy Kwanzaa. Umoja (Unity).
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

The Port Harlem Gambian Education Partnership engaged the services of ߊߤߑߡߊ߬ߘ ߡ. ߛߌ߬ߛߋ߫ to help the Baobab Youth Development Association's Women Group with the soap making as a business plan.

- Working together.... you can, too. The soap is available at the Alexandria Black History Museum. You can can make a donation now: www.pohgep.net/dnate