The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

The pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about race, love, ordinary Americans and relatable struggles. These phenomenal ...

The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

The Schomburg Centennial Festival was a reminder that in Harlem, Black joy, memory, and imagination are not just preserved ...

Off the Malls Tours and the Rainbow History Project join forces for a new walking tour celebrating Washington D.C.'s Black queer legacy.

He was a prominent member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective that nurtured Black photographers at a time when they were ...

It is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country — and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultu ...

Built in 1880 by a congregation comprised of formerly enslaved people and their descendants, the church is an enduring, ...

T he Harlem Renaissance fostered a flourishing cultural, intellectual and artistic haven for African American people, including Langston Hughes. At the time of writing, Black consciousness within ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's first collection was started in 1925, and today, it is among the oldest ...

Langston Hughes was born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri and was an important figure in the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of Black cultural and intellectual life in the 1920s. The ...

As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron ...