Plus, new public programming, an exhibition that explores center's legacy, a Centennial Festival and even a special-edition NYPL library card.

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

The center's namesake, Arturo Schomburg, dedicated his life to collecting physical proof of Black achievement, to prove wrong a schoolteacher in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who told him ...

The center will also announce a series of additional ... inclusion are being threatened,” Marx said. Arturo Schomburg’s “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” published in Survey Graphic magazine ...

History of the Schomburg Center Namesake Arturo Schomburg and Catherine Latimer, the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago with ...

History of the Schomburg Center Namesake Arturo Schomburg and Catherine Latimer, the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago ...