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The Schomburg Centennial Festival was a reminder that in Harlem, Black joy, memory, and imagination are not just preserved —they’re lived.
With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...
The Schomburg Center has 11 million items in one of the oldest and largest collections of materials documenting the history and culture of people of African descent.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was founded during the Harlem Renaissance.
The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country. The center hopes to spread awareness of that fact Saturday as it celebrates ...
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. Selections ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country, turns 100.
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the U.S.