Also of note: Locke’s father was the first Black civil-service employee of the USPS. Originally from Puerto Rico, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a historian, writer, activist, and curator of Black art ...

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

Namesake Arturo Schomburg and Catherine Latimer, the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago with their team during the Harlem ...

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 ...

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A key figure in Filipino neo-realism, Luz also co-founded and directed many of the country's leading art spaces ...