The precursor to the Schomburg Center was founded in 1925 as The Division of Negro Literature, History, and Prints, and was part of the 135th Street Branch Library at the time.

” Schomburg began lending some of his material to the library’s 135th St. branch, helping librarian Ernestine Rose create a small collection of rare books about black people.

New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrated the tradition of black comics this weekend with its annual Black Comic Book Festival. Thousands attended the two-day exhibition ...

The New York Public Library’s world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture that's dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of Black history and culture is enjoying a year ...

He's sitting in the Schomburg Library, hunched over, reading a book. In a letter from Jacob Lawrence to the head of the Schomburg at the time, the artist writes, quote, "The painting is not an ...

Learn about the library’s history while exploring objects from each of Schomburg’s divisions. This exhibition opening on May 8 will surround visitors with the sights, sounds, and objects that ...

After selling his collection, Arturo Schomburg (center) traveled to Europe where he continued researching the African diaspora. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints ...

The name of writer Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins will not appear in future editions of the Schomburg Library of 19th-Century Black Women Writers. That's because Holly Jackson, a doctoral student at ...

Arthur Schomburg died on June 11, 1939. The old library building tands next to the collection’s current home, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, opened in 1980.

This week's featured book is Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez. Book summary from the publisher Candlewick Press: Amid the scholars, poets ...

The Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture is based in Harlem, but its roots are on the island of Puerto Rico with a little Afro Puerto Rican boy named Arturo Schomburg.