The New York Public Library’s limited-edition design features late artist Houston Conwill’s cosmogram “Rivers,” inspired by a 1921 Langston Hughes poem.

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.

During the centennial celebrations, NYPL patrons will also be able to receive a special-edition library card depicting the Center’s cosmogram Rivers.

THE MELLON FOUNDATION AWARDED Prospect Park Alliance with a $1.5 million Humanities in Place grant for the ReImagine Lefferts initiative.

As part of Black History Month, we’re highlighting a church in Savannah with historic ties to the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Movement.

Arielle Julia Brown wrote a ritualistic memoriam — premiering at Philadelphia's FringeArts — about her aunt, Donna Nicole Booker, who thrived in the San Francisco underground.

Circle and cross forms figure prominently in the mixed media drawings, references to the Congo Cosmogram; a central symbol in the Bakongo religion that represents the relationship between the spaces ...

Generations of Lott descendants heard stories about the "closet within a closet," a hidden space just off a second-floor bedroom at the historic Lott House in Marine Park, Brooklyn. This Dutch ...

The Aztecs’ circular stone cosmogram remains popular in Mexican culture today, although it’s often inaccurately described as a calendar.

The relationship between Black people and the Atlantic Ocean is often a heavy, tragic one. But artists in “Becoming the Sea” use the exhibit as an opportunity to reclaim and transform the ...