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Reading and Rereading James Baldwin
The name James Baldwin is sure to be known in most readers' minds. The two usual responses are: "I think I read him in high school?" or "Yeah he wrote that one and some others, but I never read him."...
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A reading list for all ages to accompany the movie Selma.Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton. (4-8 yrs.) The author shares her childhood memories of the civil rights movement and...
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Listen Up! Podcasts from the Schomburg Center
New ideas, enlightening conversations, cutting-edge research, tomorrow's trends: it's all here in the podcast series from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Listen to our visiting...
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Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: How You Can Help
The Schomburg Center's first Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will give patrons the tools to edit the popular online encyclopedia, with the goal of making black life more visible within its pages. We hope to see...
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En commémoration de l'histoire Afro-Américaine - Février 2015
Image ID: 1229126 Des Afro-américains en train de lire en famille - [An African American family; Reading books.] (1922) Ce mois de février on célèbre l’Histoire des Noirs aux États-Unis. C’est en...
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Black Life Matters Feature of the Week: Epistolary Lives
Epistolary Lives: Letters Written by Black Gays and LesbiansJewelle Gomez. Jersey City, NJ. Image ID: 1661099“Even tho (sic) I felt energized I also felt adrift, as if the past had not happened, and...
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Black Life Matters Exhibition Feature of the Week: Evidence of Things Un*Seen
This week's feature is provided by Shola Lynch, Curator of our Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division. Here she discusses the importance of archival video and audio materials to black history and our...
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An Interview With Titus Kaphar
As the millennial generation is charged with shifting the country’s policing practices and devaluation of Black humanity, artist Titus Kaphar and The Jerome Project makes those impacted by our criminal...
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Black Life Matters Exhibition Feature of the Week: A Bit Of Life
Canoe racing, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 1969 Richard Saunders Collection Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureIn today's Exhibition Feature of the Week, Mary...
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Black Life Matters Exhibition Feature of the Week: Digging in the Vault
"New Generation;" Elizabeth Catlett, 1991 PR. 09.004 Art © Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NYToday's Exhibition Feature of the Week comes from Tammi Lawson, our in-house Curator...
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Black Life Matters Feature of the Week: Telling the Stories of the Black...
In our final exhibition feature, Maira Liriano, Curator of our Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, discusses the importance of diverse literature, especially for young readers of...
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Schomburg Treasures: The Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book, 1947"Carry your Green Book with you—you may need it."The mid-20th Century: a time of freedom and grand opportunities. Ever bigger and faster and cheaper cars allowed an...
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Remembering the Women of Slavery
Since my graduate school days in Paris, I have been researching and writing and talking about the slave trade and slavery. On March 25, I had the honor of doing the latter during the International Day...
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Top Sellers at the Schomburg Gift Shop
Looking for something great to read? The Schomburg Gift Shop has got you covered. From non-fiction titles by our very own Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis...
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Schomburg Treasures: The Menu Collection
The Tree Houses, 1964-65How much did a plate of chop suey cost at the Cotton Club?What did the Buffalo Soldiers have for Christmas dinner in 1920?At the African Pavilion of the 1964-65 New York World's...
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Podcast #56: Tavis Smiley on Maya Angelou
Subscribe on iTunes.Tavis Smiley's daily podcast Tavis Talks is a popular news and opinion program from BlogTalkRadio. He also currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show on PRI. But...
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Celebrating Our Voices During National Poetry Month
Actresses (Front L-R) Laurie Carlos, Paula Moss, Aku Kadogo, Trazana Beverly; (Top L-R) Rise Collins, Janet League, Seret Scott in scene fr. the play "For Colored Girls Who Have Condsidered Suicide...
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Interview with Steven Fullwood, Curator and Co-Editor of "Black Gay Genius"
Steven FullwoodFarrah Lopez, the Schomburg Center's Communications Pre-Professional, spoke to Steven Fullwood, Assistant Curator for our Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, about his...
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Mauricio Pestana and Afro-Latino Gems at the Schomburg Center
Erika Paul, Pre-Professional at the Schomburg Center's Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, shares how a recent visit from a renowned cartoonist Mauricio Pestana helped her discover...
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Schomburg Treasures: The StoryCorps Black LGBTQ Archive
StoryCorps participantsIt's easy for the digital world to seem isolating. Standing, sitting, walking, driving, we're surrounded by faces looking down at their cellphones. Real human connection—and...
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