As Latine Heritage Month unfolds, it’s crucial to spotlight the contributions of Afro-Latine figures who have shaped history and culture. Among them is Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a Puerto Rican ...

It’s Latinx Heritage Month, and in the wake of the right wing’s attempts to erase Black history, ESSENCE wants to make sure that you know about one Afro-Latino who spent most of his life dedicated to ...

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg is regarded as one of the foundational figures of Black history in the United States, with one of the nation's most important research and cultural institutions named after ...

The Schomburg Center library in Harlem celebrated the 150th birthday of historian Arturo Schomburg by hosting a Transcribe-A-Thon. The Schomburg Center library in Harlem celebrated the 150th birthday ...

Its storied holdings include Coptic crosses, manuscripts from Malcolm X, papers of Langston Hughes and sculpture by Augusta Savage. On the evening of the first Wednesday in May, Harlem’s Schomburg ...

The events surrounding “100 Years of the Schomburg Center” mark the centennial anniversary of the New York Public Library’s world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture dedicated to ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library will kick off its yearlong 100th anniversary celebration on May 8, with programming that includes an exhibition, a ...

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack. By Jennifer Schuessler Even on an ordinary day, walking into the New York ...

The New York Public Library has debuted a limited-edition card featuring Houston Conwill's "Rivers" (1991). (photo by Jonathan Blanc, all images courtesy the Schomburg Center) New Yorkers can now ...

It is one of the largest research collections dedicated to Black history in the world. Adorning its walls are artwork and films telling the stories of the African diaspora. The ashes of the poet ...