The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

For some, Harlem’s Schomburg Center is simply their local New York Public Library. But it’s also where you could have heard, recently, a lecture on Nat Turner, a scholarly discussion of the ...

About this episode: Into America continues its Black History Month series, Harlem on My Mind, following four figures from Harlem who defined Blackness for themselves and what it means to be Black ...

In the Schomburg Center's archive, the original images underwent careful conservation efforts. ... as director Joy Bivins explained recently to city councilors who control the public library budget.

New Yorkers are hungry for knowledge.According to the New York Public Library, the 10 e-books with the highest percentage increase in holds at NYPL at the m ...

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 ...

Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library ...