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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
WHERE EVERY MONTH IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, located in Harlem, New York, is a research unit of The New York Public Library system. It is recognized as one of the leading institutions focusing exclusively on African-American, African Diaspora, and African experiences. Starting with the collection of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg more than 90 years ago, the Schomburg collects, preserves, and provides access to materials documenting black life locally, nationally and internationally. Recognized for its prominence in digital humanities, scholarly research, and vast collection spanning over 10 million items, the Schomburg Center won the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in 2015. Today, the Schomburg serves as a space that encourages lifelong education and exploration with diverse programs that illuminate the richness of black history and culture, and in 2017 it was named a National Historic Landmark.
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FALL 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS PUBLIC PROGRAMS 4
FIRST FRIDAYS
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OPEN ARCHIVE: SONNY ROLLINS
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BETWEEN THE LINES
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OPEN ARCHIVE: NEGRO ENSEMBLE CO.
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THEATER TALKS
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ARTISTS AND THE ARCHIVE
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LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVE
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EVERYDAY ARCHIVES
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TALKS AT THE SCHOMBURG
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LAPIDUS CENTER CONFERENCE
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OPEN ARCHIVE: KATHLEEN COLLINS
EDUCATION AT THE SCHOMBURG 16
CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK
FREEDOM STUDIES
16 PROGRAMS EXHIBITIONS & RELATED PROGRAMS 18
BLACK NEW YORKERS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 20 CALENDAR SUPPORT 22
SPECIAL EVENTS
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Schomburg Center for research in black culture The New York Public Library
The calendar listings featured in this brochure are highlights from our full program schedule. For the most complete and up-to-date program information, please visit schomburgcenter.org/calendar.
PLAN YOUR VISIT To register for our FREE events, please visit: schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com Power in Print is now on view in our freshly renovated Latimer/Edison Gallery! Visit us soon to check out the exhibition. Plus, swing by the Schomburg Shop and purchase our new brand merchandise, including mugs, umbrellas, and more! PLUS, come to our recently refurbished Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Moving Image and Recorded Sound and Art and Artifacts Divisions to peer through our massive collections of artwork, personal documents, films, and audio from across the African diaspora.
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Take 2 or 3 train to 135th St 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037-1801
Books for most our talks can be purchased through the Schomburg Shop, located to the left of the main entrance on the first floor.
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
We’re keeping the party going as the temperatures drop this fall with our popular top-of-the-month social gathering series! SEPTEMBER 1 AT 6:00 PM
Labor Day “Carnival” Edition OCTOBER 6 AT 6:00 PM
Masquerade Edition NOVEMBER 3 AT 6:00 PM
AfroBeat Edition
DECEMBER 1 AT 6:00 PM
Holiday Edition
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 AT 7:00 PM
Schomburg Teach-in with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad In the spirit of teach-ins developed to advance social movements and societal transformation, we invite you to join this conversation with leading academic and community experts at the Schomburg to understand today’s policy issues and local impact. Dr. Muhammad will facilitate an interactive discussion on education policy with Dr. Noliwe Rooks, author of the forthcoming book Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 1:00 PM
Open Archive: Sonny Rollins Collection Join Schomburg Center librarians and archivists as they unveil the the first public display of selected items from our coveted collection of materials highlighting the life and career of legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Get up close and personal with the selected items and enjoy an audience Q&A with the collection’s curators.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 4:00 PM
Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division Unveiling Opening celebration of the newly renovated Schomburg Center research division Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS). The division is home to the Sonny Rollins collection, which includes audio recordings and more. Join the staff of MIRS for a tour of the division. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6:30 PM
Our Man In Jazz: Sonny Rollins Tribute Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins is a living icon and one of jazz’s most influential tenor saxophonists. In celebration of our recent acquisition of the Sonny Rollins archive, filled with correspondence, notes, photographs, and more, this evening program will pay musical tribute to the icon and include highlights from his archive. Pop-up exhibition available throughout the evening Photo credit: Sonny Rollins,CA.1979, ©Milestone Records, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Photographs and Prints Division
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AT 6:30 PM
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will discuss her new novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. Ward grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story, and the power and limitations of the bonds of family Ward will be joined in conversation by Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. A book signing will follow.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 6:30 PM
My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris Jessica B. Harris, preeminent culinary scholar of the African Diaspora, cookbook author, and journalist, pens a memoir about a time in her life shaped by a romance with fellow college professor Sam Floyd, as well as friendships and chance encounters with cultural icons James Baldwin, Maya Angelou and Nina Simone. Harris will be in conversation with Carla Hall, Chef and cohost of ABC’s popular Emmy award-winning lifestyle series The Chew. A book signing will follow. This is an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, presented in collaboration with PEN America.
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 6:00 PM
The Street by Ann Petry
The Schomburg Center is excited to welcome New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray, the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, NYPL President Dr. Anthony Marx, and other distinguished panelists for a discussion of Ann Petry’s masterful novel The Street, the newest Gracie Book Club selection. Moderated by Schomburg Director Kevin Young, the conversation will explore the 1945 book that traces the life of a young black woman and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AT 6:30 PM
Bunk by Kevin Young
Schomburg Director Kevin Young’s latest book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T. Barnum’s “humbug” culminating with the currency of President Donald Trump’s “fake news.” A book signing reception will follow.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 6:30 PM
A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni The latest poetry collection by Nikki Giovanni, A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter, pays homage to her personal memories of family, friends, and students who have shaped her life and ruminations on aging. Giovanni will be interviewed by Joy-Ann Reid, author, journalist and host of “AM Joy.” A book signing will follow.
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
50 Years of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) On May 14, 1967 the Ford Foundation announced a grant to establish the Negro Ensemble Company, which was used to develop a black repertory company to present works on social themes, expand opportunities for experienced black theatre artists, and offer professional training to potential new talent with materials that emphasized black identity. This year celebrates 50 years of the founding of the Negro Ensemble Company by Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 AT 1:00 PM
Open Archive: Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) Collection
Join Schomburg Center Librarians and Archivists as they unveil our latest pop-up exhibition featuring items from our coveted collection of archival materials. Be the first to get up close and personal with selected items and enjoy an audience Q&A with the collection’s curators. The records of the NEC, 1967-1993, located in our Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books division, document the work of the most successful African-American theatrical company in the United States to date.
LensCulture LensCulture features emerging and established photographers from the African Diaspora, discussions about photography, and a visual survey of diasporic experiences. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 6:30 PM
Bee and Rog Walker
Our first installment of the LensCulture series will feature New York-based photographers Rog and Bee Walker. Their latest work Paper Monday is a visual research project that reflects a practice that is collaborative and multifaceted. Rog and Bee have distinct photographic styles that, together or apart, produce cultural commentaries. Joining the conversation will be Ouigi Theodore, the Founder and Creative Director of the Brooklyn Circus.
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 AT 6:30 PM
Douglas Turner Ward + 50 Years of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) Douglas Turner Ward shepherded the idea of a black repertory company from idea to funding, and ultimately established the NEC. He directed close to two-thirds of the productions for the NEC where he served as producer, director, actor, and playwright. This evening will feature the Legacy Leaders of Color Video Project (LLCVP), a mini documentary about Ward, a conversation with Ward, and performance excerpts from NEC alums. Pop-up exhibition available throughout the day The program is presented in partnership with the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11 AT 6:30 PM
HYCIDE Magazine
Founded by photojournalist and filmmaker Akintola Hanif, HYCIDE is a photography magazine dedicated to stories of survival and freedom. HYCIDE, the White Privilege/Black Power double issue, presents new and revelatory ways of viewing the construct of race and how it shapes our individual and collective consciousness. The issue features stories and images by Jamel Shabazz, Zun Lee, Denene Millner, Michael Gonzales and more. Join us for a conversation with photographer and HYCIDE contributor Russell Frederick, Associate Professor of Law, and criminal attorney Kenneth J. Montgomery, Esq., along with HYCIDE guest editor, professor and producer Dr. Yaba Blay, creator of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race and #ProfessionalBlackGirl. HYCIDE will be available for purchase in the Schomburg Shop. 9
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 6:30 PM
Deconstructing Racial Imagination Founded by poet and McArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine, The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) is an interdisciplinary cultural laboratory of writers, activists, scholars, and artists, dedicated to the work of engaging the concept of the racial imagination, specifically critiquing the costs and means by which whiteness and institutional racism have shaped cultural production, politics, and memory. This program will feature a discussion with Rankine and scholars, artists, and writers on art, activism and the archives. They will also explore how TRII’s new online archive will be used by artists and writers seeking to examine important conversations on race in the U.S. and across the globe through artistic practice.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 AT 6:30 PM
Supersonic Blackness: The Archive of the Future
The Schomburg Center and the Rebuild Foundation proudly present an exploration with Theaster Gates (Director of the Rebuild Foundation, and sculpture, installation, performance and urban intervention artist) and Leslie Hewitt (artist and professor at The Cooper Union), on the past, present, and future of the black archive and his pioneering work with Rebuild.
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 AT 12:30 PM
WATSON LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
The Black Experience in Kansas @ The Digital Humanities Forum As a way to illuminate the diverse black experience in Kansas, we’re asking community members to present items from their own personal archive that reflect this narrative to this workshop designed to help them become their own storytellers. At this lively program, led by Alexsandra M. Mitchell, librarian and archivist in our Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, participants will learn the art of archival curation, document scanning, and collection organizing.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 6:00 PM
Schomburg Center Fall Open House: Revival of SOUL Soul has been used to describe cities, rhythms, collective power, and the ultimate place of change. Visit the Schomburg Center for an institution-wide escapade through the many facets of soul embodied in black experiences archived at the Schomburg over the last 91 years. With performances, conversations, and special exhibits from our five research divisions, we will highlight the sacred, rebellious, and lyrical ways soul has and continues to be displayed through African-American, African Diaspora, and African experiences. The Schomburg Center’s annual Open House is an opportunity for the public to meet our librarians, archivists and curators. Enjoy light refreshments, visit our newly renovated divisions and current exhibitions, and attend programs in the Langston Hughes Auditorium. Image credits: Sculpture & Ochre, 21.5 x 18.25, woodcut, artist: Ademola Olugebefola, Art and Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Publicity photograph of singer Aretha Franklin, ca. 1970 ©Atlantic Records, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 6:30 PM
Black LGBT Health in the United States
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, edited by Lourdes Dolores Follins, PhD, LCSW, and Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, PhD, focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the black LGBT population. Join Follins and Lassiter as they reflect on the findings from the book and the influence politics and culture can have on black LGBT health. This program is presented in partnership with Emil Wilbekin, Founder of Native Son. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 6:30 PM
Bettina Love and Hip-Hop Civics Education Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate hip-hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities. Love will join educator, social critic, public intellectual and science advocate Dr. Christopher Emdin in conversation about her hip-hop civics curriculum GET FREE and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education and intersectional social justice. Dr. Christopher Emdin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University; where he also serves as Director of Science Education at the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Presented in collaboration with Schomburg Education TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 AT 6:30 PM
What Will Be Different for Historians in a Changing America? Some U.S. historians have become increasingly visible, vocal, and even radicalized in response to today’s political climate, the implications of U.S. Government policy shifts, and the decisions of their peers to speak out, or remain silent, on current affairs. What is the ethical and responsible role of historians in public discourse, particularly when “alternative facts” have become commonplace and history itself is called into question? Curated by Brian Tate as part of the series, What Will Be Different: Conversations On a Changing America. 12
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
“You think your pain and your
heartbreak are unprecedented in the
history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me
with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
But Then You Read: Baldwin The Schomburg Center will present a range of artists, cultural producers, and scholars to deliver a daylong read of Baldwin. The Schomburg’s recent acquisition of James Baldwin’s personal papers includes biographical sketches, correspondence, interviews, awards, travel records, and fan mail. These items, alongside his published writings and novels, provide a storehouse of material that celebrate the brilliance and beauty of Baldwin. Presented in collaboration with TimesTalks.
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LAPIDUS CENTER CONFERENCE All programs are brought to you by the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16–18 NOVEMBER 16 AT 6:30 PM | NOVEMBER 17–18, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Reckoning with Slavery
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is proud to present its inaugural conference,“Reckoning with Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement.” Thirty-one scholars from the U.S. and other countries will present new research on abolition, Civil War and Reconstruction, gender and sexuality, archives, memory and identity, photography, the search for freedom, and public history.
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 1:00 PM
Open Archive: Kathleen Collins Collection Join Schomburg Center librarians and archivists as they unveil our latest pop-up exhibition featuring items from our coveted collection of archival materials on groundbreaking filmmaker Kathleen Collins. Be the first to get up close and personal with selected items and enjoy an audience Q&A with the collection’s curators. In addition to being a filmmaker, Collins was a playwright and author.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 2:30 PM
Before 5 Films: Losing Ground by Kathleen Collins Unseen for more than thirty years prior to its 2015 screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Losing Ground (1982) was among the first feature length movies produced by a black woman filmmaker. The film delves into the interior lives of a married philosophy professor and a visual artist. It stars theater actor and director Seret Scott and celebrated filmmaker Bill Gunn. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 6:30 PM
Masterworks: Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins’s archival collection housed at the Schomburg Center reveals a trove of artistic ideas made with aplomb and intelligence. Join us for an evening exploration of her work as an adroit creative and activist. Pop-up exhibition available throughout the day
Director Kathleen Collins with actor Bill Gunn during the filming of the Collins/Gray production Losing Ground, ©1982 Ground Productions/Ronald Gray, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,Photographs and Prints Division
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FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 7:00 PM
Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: Martha Redbone Roots Project Martha Redbone’s award-winning blend of Native American soul, Appalachian folk, and Piedmont blues has positioned her to become “Americana’s next superstar” (The Village Voice). A versatile artist who is equally at home in rhythm and blues as she is in conjuring memories of her Cherokee and Choctaw roots. In addition to an active performing career, Redbone holds an annual traditional music workshop for young people from the United Houma Nation. Lead Support for Neighborhood Concerts is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Additional support is provided by the A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 AT 6:30 PM
2017 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Visual AIDS has commissioned seven artists— Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye (with Ellen Spiro), Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia LaBeija, Tiona McClodden, and Brontez Purnell–to create short videos about the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. The video program, titled Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings, is the 28th iteration of Visual AIDS’s longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett, Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings looks to prioritize black narratives within the AIDS epidemic. This program is presented in partnership with Visual AIDS and The Studio Museum In Harlem.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 AT 6:30 PM
Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Celebration
2017 marks the centennial year of genius poet Gwendolyn Brooks, born on June 7, 1917. Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for any literary genre. She had published 75 poems by the age of 16 and recalled “very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.” This evening we celebrate the wonder of language as influenced by Brooks’s life and compositions. Image credit: Gwendolyn Brooks, Topkea, Kansas, June 7, 1917, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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EDUCATION AT THE SCHOMBURG
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 AT 6:00 PM
Fifty Years After the Newark and Detroit Uprising with Junius Williams, Mark Krasovic, and Say Burgin THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 6:00 PM
The Fannie Lou Hamer Centennial: Black Women’s Organizing Traditions with Charles Payne, Katherine Charron, and Ashley Farmer
The Schomburg Center Junior Scholars and Teen Curators Programs In continuing with our mission to enrich and empower the younger generation with knowledge about history and materials across the African Diaspora, we’re excited to present another season of our two popular programs, Junior Scholars and Teen Curators. Entering its third year, Teen Curators, is an after-school art history enrichment program admitting 30 high school students each year. And our flagship program, Junior Scholars, is a uniquely designed pre-college black studies program now in its 16th year.
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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a dynamic adult education series featuring a full lineup of provocative scholars and community members committed to engaging dialogue about black freedom studies and civil rights historiography. Join us for our sixth season, which will focus on “The Strange Career of the Jim Crow North,� looking at the structures of racial inequality and segregation in the North and the long black freedom struggle outside the South. Themes will include: northern abolitionism; the racial blinders of northern liberalism; northern black freedom movements; and northern black intellectual thought and journalism.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 AT 6:00 PM
The Strange Career of Jim Crow New York with Brian Purnell, Christopher Tinson, and Tahir Butt THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 AT 6:00 PM
The Strange Career of Jim Crow Midwest For more information: Website: www.blackfreedomstudies.org Email: schomburged@nypl.org Phone: (212) 491-2272
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 AT 10:30 AM
YA Author Talk: Ibi Zoboi & Jayson Reynolds The Schomburg Center invites young people and school groups to an exciting conversation between award-winning authors Ibi Zoboi (A is for Ayiti) and Jayson Reynolds (When I Was the Greatest, As Brave As You). We will offer priority seating for youth.
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EXHIBITIONS AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Curated by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf
In May or June 1613, Jan Rodrigues, a free sailor from Hispaniola (in what is today the Dominican Republic), who worked for a Dutch fur trading company, was left on Manhattan Island to trade with Native Americans. A black man, he was the first non-Native American to settle on the island. Starting with Rodrigues’s arrival, Black New Yorkers, an exploration of 400 years of African-American history in New York, tells the story of 16 generations of New Yorkers in essays, prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, tables, and newspapers. The digital exhibition is organized around five themes and periods: Slavery and Freedom (1613–1865); Migrations and New Neighborhoods (1866–1915); War and Renaissance (1916–1939); WWII, Housing and Politics (1940–1959); Civil Rights, Black Power and Beyond (1960–2010).
Abundantly illustrated, the exhibition also presents original maps, a run of Marcus Garvey’s newspaper The Negro World, and “Negroes of New York” (accessible online for the first time ever). Highlighting 41 studies of Black New Yorkers from 1626 to the 1930s, “Negroes of New York” was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration between 1936 and 1941. With Black New Yorkers, visitors learn about the black experience in New York City through patterns of migrations, political and social organizations, arts and entertainment, education, housing, the formation and disappearance of black neighborhoods, religion, race relations, and culture.
Out for the night, 1979 © Coreen Simpson, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; New York City, “Law for Regulating Negroes and Slaves in the Night Time,” 1731, Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library; Dunbar National Bank staff, 1930, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library; Poster for Oscar Micheaux’s “Murder in Harlem,” 1935, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library; View of 7th Avenue looking north from West 125th Street, 1945, Photographer: Vondel Nichols. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library; Afro-American Realty Company, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library; Small’s Paradise, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library.
EXHIBITIONS AND RELATED PROGRAMS
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 AT 1:00 PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 AT 6:00 PM
Open Archive: Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) Collection
First Fridays: Labor Day “Carnival” Edition WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AT 6:30 PM
Between the Lines: Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 AT 6:30 PM
Theater Talks: Douglas Turner Ward + 50 Years of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 AT 6:00 PM
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Fifty Years After the Newark and Detroit Uprising
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 6:00 PM
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: The Fannie Lou Hammer Centennial: Black Women’s Organizing Traditions
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 6:30 PM
Between the Lines: My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 AT 6:00 PM
First Fridays: Masquerade Edition
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 AT 7:00 PM
Schomburg Teach-In with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 6:30 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 11:00 AM TO 6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 6:30 PM
But Then Your Read: Baldwin
LensCulture: Bee and Roger Walker
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 6:30 PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 6:00 PM
Artist and the Archives: Deconstructing Racial Imagination
Schomburg Center Fall Open House: Revival of SOUL
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 1:00 PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 6:30 PM
Between the Lines: The Street by Ann Petry
Talks at the Schomburg: Black LGBT Health in the United States
Open Archive: Sonny Rollins Collection
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 4:00 PM
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 AT 6:30 PM
Moving Image and Recorded Sound Unveiling
Live from the Archive: Supersonic Blackness: The Archive of the Future
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6:30 PM
Our Man in Jazz: Sonny Rollins Tribute
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 AT 6:00 PM
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: The Strange Career of Jim Crow New York
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 AT 6:30 PM
Everday Archives: The Black Experience in Kansas @ The Digital Humanities Forum
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CALENDAR LISTINGS
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Image credit: Yoruba, Center, Mama Keke, Queen Mother, 1991 Black Religion Project, © Chester Higgins, Photographs and Prints Division/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT 6:00 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 6:30 PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 6:30 PM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 AT 10:30 AM
Masterworks: Kathleen Collins
First Fridays: AfroBeat Edition
YA Author Talk: Ibi Zoboi & Jayson Reynolds
Talks at the Schomburg: Bettina Love and Hip-Hop Civics Education
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 AT 6:00 PM
First Fridays: Holiday Edition
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AT 6:30 PM
Between the Lines: Bunk by Kevin Young
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 AT 6:30 PM
2017 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 6:30 PM
Between the Lines: A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 AT 6:30 PM
Talks at the Schomburg: What Will Be Different for Historians in a Changing America?
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 7:00 PM
Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: Martha Redbone Roots Project
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 AT 6:00 PM
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: The Strange Career of Jim Crow Midwest
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16 AT 6:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17-18 AT 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11 AT 6:30 PM
Lapidus Center Conference: Reckoning with Slavery
LensCulture: HYCIDE Magazine
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 AT 6:30 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 1:00 PM
Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Celebration
Open Archive: Kathleen Collins Collection TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 2:30 PM
Before 5 Films: Losing Ground by Kathleen Collins
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