ARTHUR SCHOMBURG has been called the Sherlock Holmes of black history - a man with, as poet Claude McKay put it, a "bloodhound's nose" for tracking down rare books that shed light on an unknown past.

Arthur Schomburg, more than any other single human being, set me in motion in the pursuit of a career as a teacher of history,” revealed Dr. Clarke – the master teacher.

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.) ...

Arthur Schomburg was probably born on Jan. 24, 1874, though there’s no official record. He grew up and attended school in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Arthur (Arturo) Schomburg was born in San Juan, PR, on Jan. 24, 1874, to a mother from St. Croix, Virgin Islands, with African roots, and a white father with German roots.

Transcript Into America Harlem On My Mind: Arturo Schomburg. Trymaine Lee: There's something about the way an old book feels in my hands, the way the rough-hewn binding and browning pages somehow ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Bald, loc'd, cornrowed and afro'd superheroes made the pages come alive at The Schomburg Center's 8th annual Black Comic Book Festival. Some 10,000 people in all are ...

The Schomburg Centennial Festival is an all-day event starting at 11 a.m. at the Langston Hughes Auditorium in New York. Honoring the institute’s founder comes at an appropriate time, as June is ...

The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship (also known as the SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship Program) is designed to direct aid to graduate/professional students who have demonstrated academic achievement ...

Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is celebrating 100 years of service to the community by displaying some of its more than 11 million pieces of African American history.

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 ...