What began as a small Harlem library addressing the needs of a changing neighborhood has grown into a world-renowned mecca ...

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 ...

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

Catherine Latimer (NYPL’s first Black librarian), Miss Lipscomb, Lawrence Reddick, and Roberta Thompson at the 135th Street Library in 1945 Named in 1940 after Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican ...

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 ...

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 ...