Plus, new public programming, an exhibition that explores center's legacy, a Centennial Festival and even a special-edition ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has its roots in the Harlem Renaissance, one of the richest cultural ...

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

Among the influencers in those meetings was Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican historian of African descent who, as a young child, often wondered about the lack of African history taught in his ...

Namesake Arturo Schomburg and Catherine Latimer, the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago with their team during the Harlem ...

History of the Schomburg Center Namesake Arturo Schomburg and Catherine Latimer, the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago ...

The center's namesake, Arturo Schomburg, dedicated his life to collecting physical proof of Black achievement, to prove wrong a schoolteacher in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who told him ...