Posts from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The home got its start when Sarah Tillman began taking care of twenty Black children in her lower Manhattan home.

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

A collection of books by six Black chefs, including an inspiring memoir, three vegan cookbooks and one Caribbean cookbook to give some new inspiration and healthy culinary tips.

For 95 years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has preserved, protected, and fostered a greater understanding of the Black experience through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and scholarship. In response to the uprisings across the globe demanding justice for Black lives, the Schomburg Center has created a Black Liberation Reading List. The 95 titles on the list represent books we and the public turn to regularly as activists, students, archivists, and curators, with a particular focus on books by Black authors and those whose papers we steward.

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She was an enslaved woman who lived more than 100 years, and even in her old age had tremendous mental, physical, and intellectual abilities.

Michelle Alexander's 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness', Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen: American Lyric', and James Baldwin's 'The Fire Next Time' are some of the books on the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List.

The Gaither Sisters trilogy will get young people thinking about the importance of family, growing up during pivotal moments in history and social justice.

Learn not only new cocktail recipes but the history of drinks from Caribbean areas.

First post of a series exploring lesser-known 19th century African Americans who in various ways fought to reclaim Black identity, and humanity, and contributed to the struggle for freedom.

These funny men and women divulge their life stories in comically descriptive ways.

The songs of renowned artist, Bob Marley, will take you back to island time, or that wonderful vacation you last took.

Both were prolific dramatists who used their craft to portray the contours, complexity and tensions of the lives of people in the African diaspora.

Reading poetry and quotes is one outlet that offers comfort and guidance.

Borrow a cookbook...electronically!

Explore our rich online-accessible resources that can help teachers tackle the Reconstruction era.

Terrific reads by a Haitian American author

The impact and body of work created by Latimer is significant and lives on today.

In the first post of a series exploring lesser-known areas of New York City that black people have lived in and impacted, we learn about black nurses who brought health care to the people of the San Juan Hill neighborhood.