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 ...

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 ...

The president of the New York Public Library says the anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate American history that others ...

The pianist leads his ensemble in two suites of his own and the final commissioned work of the great jazz composer Carla Bley ...