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Live From the Reading Room: Ada "Bricktop" Smith to Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
Live from the Reading Room: Correspondence is a podcast series that aims to share interesting and engaging letters written by or to key historical figures from the African Diaspora. Each episode...
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Honoring Arturo Schomburg's Afro-Latino Legacy
Arturo Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureDays before we kick off the Afro-Latino Festival here at the Schomburg Center, Communications Intern...
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Black Dance at the Schomburg: A Visual History
As part of her Black Dance at the Schomburg series, Communications Intern Kiani Ned takes a look inside the Schomburg Center's Digital Collections to uncover some of our most fascinating gems.Dance has...
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A Reading List for America
Protest in response to the Philando Castile shooting in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 7, 2016. Photo by Fibonacci Blue, via FlickrLast night while reading about the horrific events in Baton Rouge,...
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On Black Aesthetics: The Black Arts Movement
Young Black Panthers, © Bob Fitch As we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Black Power Movement at the Schomburg, Kiani Ned, Communications intern at the Center, discusses the role of...
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The Northeasterners Inc. Records
Three members of the Northeasterners, Inc., Edith Scott, Louise Swain, and Helene Corbin on Seventh Avenue in Harlem, 1927The Northeasterners was founded as a social organization for African-American...
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Evaluating the Struggle for Equality and Civil Rights in the U.S. with the...
Little Rock Nine and Friends at the NAACP's 49th annual convention in Cleveland, 1958. Image ID: 1953739The NAACP Papers—a collection of approximately two million historical documents from NAACP...
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Small Islands, Big Carnival: West Indians in the USA
Summer 2016 has unofficially come to a close (it actually ends September 22). We customarily mark the beginning of the summer season with Memorial Day and its end with Labor Day. Immediately after...
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Schomburg Research Guide: Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement...
"I have been for a visit to Mr. Schomburg's library. It is a marvelous collection when one considers that every volume on his extensive shelves is either by a Negro or about a Negro."—Zora Neale...
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Looking for Langston, Du Bois, and Miss La La: An Interview with Author John...
John Keene is Chair of African American and African Studies and Associate Professor of English and AAAS at Rutgers University-Newark. A former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge...
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Schomburg Treasures: WPA Photographs
Federal Theatre Project still from Androcles & the LionPart of FDR's New Deal, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created in 1935 to provide paying jobs for the unemployed at every skill...
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10 African and African American Folktales for Children
America is a country rich in history and stories. As a melting pot of cultures, our national literature comes from all over the world. One of the best ways to teach our children about other cultures is...
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Schomburg Research Guide: Katherine Dunham
"That I would come into their midst, able to worship these gods in dance, and knowing, ...seemed to be of utmost importance to the cult itself—as it was important that I carry the meaning of the true...
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Celebrate Black History Month with Our Online Exhibitions
The New York Public Library has exhibitions and displays in branches all over the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. But, if it feels too cold to go traveling this time of year, then stay warm and...
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Live from the Reading Room: Julian Mayfield to Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis
Live from the Reading Room: Correspondence is a podcast series that aims to share interesting and engaging letters written by or to key historical figures from the African Diaspora. Each episode...
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The Schomburg Legacy Lives On: The Genius of Deborah Willis
Dr. Deborah Willis is a pioneer in the field of photography. Her first book, Black Photographers, 1840–1940 : An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography, has inspired the work of countless photographers,...
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Schomburg Center Research Guide: Dr. Maya Angelou
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Dr. Maya AngelouMaya Angelou photograph © Jill Krementz. All rights reserved The...
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Live from the Reading Room: Ella Baker to Potential Members of the NAACP
Live from the Reading Room: Correspondence is a podcast series that aims to share interesting and engaging letters written by or to key historical figures from the African Diaspora. Each episode...
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Our Eyes Are On Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching GodThis past fall marked the 80th anniversary of the publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s iconic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. In honor of the novel and Hurston’s...
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Joy Out of Fire: Josephine Baker
Written By Jillian Peprah-Frimpong Pre-Professional, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Student, New York City Museum SchoolThis post is the first in the "Joy Out of Fire" series on...
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