One of Clayton’s favorite pieces comes from Marcus Leslie Singleton, who watched from New York as his family lost their home.

Known now as a major exponent of the “Negro Renaissance,” Alexander Gumby is among the most forgotten Blacks ever to have lived in Harlem.

It is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country — and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultu ...

Rangel was a resilient, unapologetically, but contradictorily Black warrior, and the St. Aloysius tribute was as much an ...

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...

The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's first collection was started in 1925, and today, it is among the oldest ...

On an average day, the blocks around 135th Street in Harlem were where dandyism was truly on display. Artists like Miguel Covarrubias and Charles Henry Altston documented the scene through their work.

The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New ... Of Northern communities experiencing this boom in African-American culture, Harlem disproportionately ... A lot of artists leave New Orleans ...

Harlem remains an essential destination for understanding African American cultural innovation. The neighborhood’s golden age during the Harlem Renaissance established it as a crucible of Black ...