Schomburg Events
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John C Abercrombie
Museums can be fascinating places. They give you the opportunity to explore a much unknown world, see and experience history and culture by seeing the actual artifacts. While the Schomburg is an amazing facility, keep in mind that there are many other museums that are redily accessible to all of us. Many times, this may take a quick search for them, but it is well worth the time and effort.
There are museums devoted to all manner of interest be it heritage, industry, inventions and including most any subject that has benefitted humankind. The staff is knowledgeable and more than willing to answer your questions. They are after all more than just a static collection of “stuff”. A great time to visit is when the visitor flow has slowed, and you can get almost individual access. If this is not possible, visit often.
Support of museums and other repositories of knowledge are well worthy of our support.
The Schomburg is dedicated to exposing Black accomplishments and other aspects of Black life. The reason for the importance is to maintain and expose the life and culture of great contributions that for the most part have not been exposed and available to all people. These institutions should be a source of pride for all people as we are one nation, one world and it is most unfortunate that we have chosen to hide rather than weave into the fabric of the country that which is essential to provide a fair picture our humanness.
The Schomburg Center is located at 515 Lenox Avenue. The original building on West 135th Steet has been designated a New York City Landmark.
The Schomburg Research Center is a division of the New York Public Library and features programming and collections of over 11 million items illuminating the richness of global Black History, Arts and Culture.
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In previous posts we posted on Arturo Schomburg the man. To see that post click here.
We also looked at the Schomburg Center itself. To see this post, click here
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Slavery and Global Public History Conference:
Slavery and Public History around the World Why have slavery and its abolition become, in the past 20 years, a major, world-wide, phenomenon of public historical debate and practice? Why has the debate animated politics and new national narratives? Why the explosive development of museums and historic sites? Speakers: Anthony Bogues, Director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Brown University James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University Sylviane Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Tiya Miles, Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan Moderator: David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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History
There are books filled with stories like the Schomburg is filled. We don’t know about this because the historian/authors have decided on what to teach us. Don’t be limited, discover for yourself the history that has been kept secret
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Slaves in the Family
The Ball family hails from South Carolina―Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family’s slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, “a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'”
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Computers, Tablets and Components
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Schomburg, More Than a Name
by Alfonso Siverls Alfonso Siverls retired in 2008 from full time employment in education. Since retirement, he has produced a monthly TV show called Second Saturday on Brooklyn Free Speech TV and a weekly podcast called, Jazz, Just the Way We Like it, on Brooklyn Free Speech Radio. Schomburg, More Than a Name, is his first film.
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Cell Phones and Accessories
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Arturo Schomburg Celebration
Arturo Schomburg was a notable writer, activist, collector, and bibliophile, who devoted his life to acquiring and archiving materials related to the history and culture of people of African descent, amassing over 10,000 documents. In 1926, he sold his personal collection to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints of the 135th branch of The New York Public Library, which is now known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Watch highlights from our celebration of Arturo Schomburg’s legacy and our 90th anniversary with this special tribute, featuring our esteemed panelists: Dr. Ada Myriam Felicie-Soto, author of “Arturo and the Hidden Treasure” and professor at the University of Puerto Rico; Dr. Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, author of “Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: A Biography;” and Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner, professor at Columbia University–moderated by Dean Schomburg, grandson of Arturo Schomburg.
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Baby and Nursery
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The New Negro :
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With stunning works by seminal black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W.E.B. DuBois, Locke has constructed a vivid look at the new negro, the changing African American finding his place in the ever shifting sociocultural landscape that was 1920s America. With poetry, prose, and nonfiction essays, this collection is widely praised for its literary strength as well as its historical coverage of a monumental and fascinating time in the history of America.
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05/23/13 Arise America,
The Schomburg Center Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg center in Harlem, New York City joins us to discuss how the Schomburg center showcases monumental and historical works throughout the African diaspora to the general public.
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Diasporic Blackness:
The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.
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Health and Household
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DAMN YC News The Lasts Poets Schomburg
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library located in Harlem New York. The center offers many programs to young black youth. This segment is a portion of the events that took place when the Last Poets taught black youth the meaning of poetry and how to write a poem. Watch these kids recite their poems and learn about black culture.
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Vitamins and Dietary Supplements
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In Motion:
The African-American Migration Experience African Americans, more than any other populations in the Americas, have been shaped by migrations. Their culture and history are the products of black peoples’ various movements, coerced and voluntary, that started, in the Western Hemisphere, five hundred years ago. Theirs is the story of men and women forced out of Africa; of enslaved people moved from the coastal southeast to the Deep South; of fugitives walking to freedom across the country and beyond; of colonists leaving their land to settle on foreign shores; of southerners migrating west and north; and of immigrants arriving from the Caribbean, South America, and Africa.
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Learn ThySelf Episode One
Schomburg Episode One of “Learn Thyself” on Arturo Alphonso Schomburg, Black Biblophile and Collector!
In previous posts we posted on Arturo Schomburg the man. To see that post click here.
We also looked at the Schomburg Center itself. To see this post, click here
We look into the world renown Schomburg Center for Research, one of the greatest collection in the world. All started by one person determined to show the world that there was indeed a history and culture in the Black community. A history to be proud of and it has drawn researchers from around the world.