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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 ...
The Schomburg Centennial Festival was a reminder that in Harlem, Black joy, memory, and imagination are not just preserved —they’re lived.
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.
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 ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country.
The Schomburg will celebrate its 100th anniversary with an old-school New York block party featuring the best the diaspora has to offer.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country, turns 100.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg spent his youth in pursuit of rare books, manuscripts and works of art that he amassed to document and celebrate the attainments and contributions made by Black people to ...
Much has happened in the neighborhood since the seminal works of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and others first brought the area international ...
On the Schomburg’s special-edition library card, a version of the artwork peeks through one of the zeroes in “100.” Houston Conwill’s 1991 cosmogram, “Rivers,” at the Schomburg Center ...