Posts by NYPL Staff

This post is the first in the "Joy Out of Fire" series on expressions of femininity reclaimed by 20th century Black women entertainers inspired by "Firelei Baez: Joy Out of Fire" currently on display in the Latimer/Edison Gallery at the Schomburg Center.

Learn more about Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy through items in the Schomburg's Collections.

On July 17, we commemorate 51 years since the death of American jazz composer and saxophonist John Coltrane who passed away in 1967.

Celebrate Ida B. Wells, co-founder of the NAACP, journalist, educator and truth seeker, and the legacy she left behind within the Civil Rights movement.

On Monday, October 16, the New York Public Library's (NYPL) renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem celebrated reopening of several of its renovated spaces after a nearly two-year, $22.3 million renovation project.

NYPL President Tony Marx, Schomburg Director Kevin Young, members of the Schomburg family, local elected officials

and community leaders gave remarks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a tour of the renovated divisions, some of which were closed during construction and are now open to the