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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.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday with a new exhibition and concern among supporters about a right-wing assault on African American his… ...
Even on an ordinary day, walking into the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem can feel like walking into a shrine. The ashes of the poet Langston ...
Next year the Schomburg Center will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its opening. The efforts of the volunteers will help the library achieve its goal to have a full digital collection.
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 ...
The realization gave Schomburg, who died in 1938, a glimpse of "the extent of the erasure" of Black people's histories across the world, according to Valdés, the author of “Diasporic Blackness ...
Afro-Puerto Rican historian Arturo Schomburg, after whom The Schomburg Center For Research And Black Culture in Harlem is named, was one of the greatest influences preserving our history in the U.S.
Schomburg sold his collection, which included over 10,000 items, to the New York Public Library in 1926. In 1972, the center was renamed to honor Schomburg.