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

George R. Carruthers was a space physicist and engineer who worked for NASA. He perfected a powerful ultraviolet camera for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16. Inducted into the National Inventors ...

The president of the New York Public Library says the anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate American history that others ...

New York City is ready to celebrate Black History Month with a plethora of activities organized by the city as well as other ...

New York City is bringing out all the unique, informative, and inspiring events for this year's Black History Month.

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Good afternoon, this is W42ST Lifestyle Editor Sarah Beling with “Make Way For The Weekend” — your curated guide to the best of New York events in one convenient newsletter! While there are many film ...

Featuring free classical music performances, poetry walks, historical discussions and even a 'drunk history' comedy show, ...

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

In addition to the fall party, The Kitchen also just debuted its exhibition Code Switch: Distributing Blackness Reprogramming Internet Art with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.