Curators present items from the Arthur Schomburg Collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (Howard Simmons / New York Daily News.) ...

In the Virgin Islands and on Puerto Rican soil over 100 years ago, a child was born who gave his contribution to Black history. His name was Arthur A. Schomburg, born in 1874 to Mary Joseph, a woman ...

Irene’s love and care for animals of all kinds came as second nature. In 1985 she began her lifelong career of healing and nurturing animals with Dr. Arthur Schomburg, DVM.

Hilton Als writes about Belle da Costa Greene, a librarian to J. P. Morgan and at the Morgan Library & Museum, who passed as white, despite her Black parentage.

Richard Williams, an Arthur A. Schomburg Fellow in the Graduate School of Education, says he caught the “PhD bug” during his master’s program, but an extensive application process and a long list of ...

Sir Arthur Lewis was an economist famous for his work in development economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1979. His best-known work is the dual-sector model of ...

Arturo (Arthur) Schomburg was an Afro-Puerto Rican historian and writer who became an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance. The Schomburg Center in Harlem was named in his honor. This weekend’s two ...

JANUARY 24 1874—Arthur Schomburg is born Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in Puerto Rico. After moving to New York City in April 1891, he became known over time as the “Sherlock Holmes” of Black his ...

He earned his master’s of fine arts (MFA) in 2015 from The State University of New York at Buffalo after receiving the Arthur Schomburg fellowship, a graduate fellowship program that focuses on ...