Posts by Herbert Norat

In this episode, Rich and Herb dive into National Poetry Month and interview Adult Services Librarian Dana Bello of the Countee Cullen branch in Harlem.

In this episode, Rich and Herb dive into Women's History Month and interview the Bronx Library Center's Managing Librarian, Melissa Davis.

In this episode we dive into Isabel Wilkerson's 'The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration' and Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'. Then we interview Mrs. Cheryl Shackelton-Hawkins, a former NYPL librarian who guided us into the world of Caribbean and African American genealogy.

Some of the key issues that Alvarez's work tackles are breastfeeding in public, fertility, motherhood, and genetics.

The exhibit centers on mixed media art created to uplift women from all walks of life and explores female identity and multicultural shared experiences.

Schomburg fue uno de los principales coleccionistas de literatura Negra, narrativas de esclavos, obras de arte y materiales de la diáspora: un titán de la preservación.

Las sesiones de teatro de títeres de Pura eran tan queridas en las aulas y bibliotecas de toda la ciudad de Nueva York que los cuentos eventualmente se publicaron como libros para niñas y niños.

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For artist Evelyn Ray and the senior citizens who participate in her art classes, the pandemic has been a trying time that forced them to seek camaraderie and recreation using unconventional means.

Belpre’s storytelling skills and puppeteering became major community attractions that showcased her grandmother’s folkloric tales during story sessions.

Schomburg was one of the world’s premiere collectors of Black literature, slave narratives, artwork, and diasporic materials—a titan of preservation.

Her Crowns = Coronas exhibit featured ten pieces that represent the artist’s varied interests in Nuyorican culture, African heritage, and Santeria.

Now showing at the BLC's Latino and Puerto Rican Cultural Center through December 2, paintings that capture the vibrant culture and people of "la isla del encanto".

On September 14, the Bronx Library Center hosted Not Just Talk: Black Womxn Matter, an event that treated NYPL patrons to stimulating discussion on the state of feminism in 21st century United States. Here are the day's details.

Creating art can be a soothing, collaborative, enriching exercise, as this group of seniors found out. With a donation of canvas, acrylic paint, and brushes (and time), flowing streams and clouds awaited...

A Bronx Library Center staffer recalls a heroic friend and colleague.

One of the hidden gems at the BLC is in the 4th floor Reference department: a little trove of Spanish-language pulp fiction novels, filled with plenty of gunslingers and gore.

Librarians, scholars, and publishers gathered to share their newest projects, and NYPL presented the Book Box Project, focused on providing free books to patrons throughout the Bronx.

Before Belmont Park opened in 1905, the jewel of horse racing in New York City was a 1 1/2-mile racecourse in the Bronx. Find out how people (and horses) made their way to the track, and what became of the racecourse's land.