‘Signs of the Times’ markers map out Harlem’s rich Black history
Outside the Washington Heights branch of the Public Library in Manhattan stands a metal post topped with an unassuming blue ...
NYC’s Schomburg Center celebrating 100 years of Black culture art, history
What began as a small Harlem library addressing the needs of a changing neighborhood has grown into a world-renowned mecca ...
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NYC’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is celebrating 100 years with events and an exhibit
Plus, new public programming, an exhibition that explores center's legacy, a Centennial Festival and even a special-edition NYPL library card.
Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrates centennial anniversary
The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.
Knoxville artist Beauford Delaney's paintings revealed 'the light contained in every thing'
Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville in 1901. The Delaney Museum at Beck is set to open later this year and will honor the ...
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Harlem's Schomburg Center celebrates 100th anniversary
the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago with their team during the Harlem Renaissance, turning the 135th Street branch ...
The search for a high school basketball all-time scorer that time forgot
The unwritten history of Finell White, who went from Harlem playgrounds to South Carolina countrysides and rewrote the record book ...
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Is Turning 100
The New York Public Library’s (NYPL ... and Roberta Thompson at the 135th Street Library in 1945 Named in 1940 after Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican-born scholar and collector of Black ...