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 tim e, as June ...

One hundred years ago, the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile and archivist Arturo Schomburg donated his personal collection to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints at the 135th Street ...

It was named after the Afro-Puerto Rican archivist Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, whose collection of books and art by members of the African diaspora made up the basis of the original collection.

News / Life / Entertainment Schomburg Center turns 100, exhibits collection Signature objects curated from its catalog on display ...

Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York will celebrate its centennial with a festival combining two of its marquee annual events. (Jonathan Blanc/New York Public Library via AP) ...

Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.

NEW YORK – It is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country — and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in ...

NEW YORK – It is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country — and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in ...

It was named after the Afro-Puerto Rican archivist Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, whose collection of books and art by members of the African diaspora made up the basis of the original collection. The ...