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Past Programs at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  • Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Lecture & Award Ceremony

    June 30

    Women In Islam, Inc. celebrates the example and legacy of Dr. Betty Shabazz annually and recognize women, of all backgrounds and faiths, who demonstrate their unwavering and courageous dedication to helping others.

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  • Ordinary People BGLA Books Series

    June 25

    To conclude our series, we are inviting club participants to swap their books, as well as to make suggestions for the book club. We’ll provide the refreshments!

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  • Growing Up Daddy

    June 21

    Growing Up Daddy is a groundbreaking one-man play written and performed by spoken-word phenomena, Kraal “Kayo” Charles.

    In this semi-autobiographical piece, Kayo uses poetry and hip hop to explore what happens when a rising artist-entrepreneur is suddenly 

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  • NYC Mayoral Forum: Policing and Criminal Justice

    June 19

    Co-sponsored by the Community Service Society, the Brotherhood/Sister Sol, The Nation, the Ethical Culture Society, the Police Reform Organizing Project, and the Schomburg Center, this mayoral 

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  • Films at Schomburg: You Are Not Alone

    June 18

    Terrie M. Williams, mental health activist and author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting presentsYou Are Not Alone, a powerful film which explores high rates of depression among Black gay men and exposes the raw truths behind their 

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  • Ordinary People Book Series: Unexplained Presence with Tisa Bryant

    June 11

    Join us for a discussion Bryant’s extraordinary book, Unexplained Presence, as well as special presentation from the author herself. Light refreshments will be served.

    Presented by the Black Gay and Lesbian Archives 

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  • First Fridays

    June 7

    Start the new month with First Fridays at the Schomburg, a popular monthly social gathering that welcomes the community with music and drinks. Exhibition galleries will be open late. Free!

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  • The Literary Society presents The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

    June 3

    The Literary Society continues the tradition of African-American literary societies formed in the 1880's to encourage reading and education in African-American communities. Founded in Harlem in 1982, The Literary Society, a book discussion group of 50 members, meets monthly to discuss books 

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  • Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker

    May 31

    A One-Woman-Play

    After being assigned more work than she can handle, social worker Lewis has a nervous breakdown, tries to kill her boss and is committed for psychiatric observation. After being restrained, Lewis recalls her true-life experiences working with prostitutes, drug addicts 

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  • Ordinary People BGLA Film Series: Lawrence Graham-Brown

    May 28

    Join Jamaican artist Lawrence Graham-Brown for a screening of "Rites of Passage/Sacred Spaces 2012,” his recent performance/film. After the screening, Graham-Brown will be in conversation with Steven G. Fullwood about his insightful views on art, politics, and public performance as a 

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  • Films at Schomburg: Town of Runners

    May 23

    Town of Runners is a feature documentary about young runners from Bekoji - an Ethiopian highland town which has produced some of the world's greatest distance athletes. The film tells the story of two young girls, living in a rural town as they try to run their way to a different life. Narrated 

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  • The Finding Aid: Black Women Archivists

    May 21

    The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving. 

    This event is based on the idea of a finding aid. A finding aid is 

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  • Malcolm X Museum

    May 19

    The Malcolm X Museum Annual Celebration of the Birthday of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) presents:

    Memories of a Meeting: Fidel and Malcolm X by Rosemari Mealy

    A discussion with author, Rosemari Mealy, about the historic October 1960 meeting 

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  • Learn My History

    May 18

    Join Learn My History, a Youth Empowerment Mentoring non-profit (founded by Ronnique Hawkins a Producer of the Emmy nominated film on Emmett Till), as it celebrates the hidden potentials of youth by connecting them to award winners and successful Professionals for a 

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  • Talks at the Schomburg: Martha Biondi, Vincent Harding and Bill Strickland

    May 16

    Grab your copy of The Black Revolution on Campus by Martha Biondi and enjoy a discussion on the black student movement in the U.S. with Professor Biondi, Northwestern University, Professor Bill Strickland, University of Massachusetts and historian and 

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  • American Beatboxer Film Screening - World Premiere!

    May 15

    This documentary honors the evolution of beat boxing juxtaposed against the final day of competition to crown the first American beat boxing champion. On the judging panel are Rahzel the "King of Noise," Parrish Smith of EPMD, as well as Jarobi White of A Tribe Called Quest. 

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  • Before 5: Lois Mailou Jones Gallery Talk with Tammi Lawson

    May 15

    Enjoy a tour of our colorful exhibition, Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, with archivist of the Schomburg Center’s very own Art and Artifacts Division, Tammi Lawson.

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  • Higher Learning: The Cornell Hip-Hop Collection

    May 14

    Meet archivist Katherine Reagan, assistant archivist Ben Ortiz, and pioneer hip-hop photographer Joe Conzo, as they discuss how they launched and developed the largest national archive on hip-hop culture. Presented as part of the Schomburg's Hip-Hop 4.0 Initiative, curated by 

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  • The Harlem Interfaith Commission for Housing Equality Forum: Stop Displacement

    May 14

    The Harlem Interfaith Commission for Housing Equality invites you to join us in an Open Public Forum to Stop Displacement. 

    The Forum is to discuss legislative provisions to stop displacement and offer economic opportunity to low and 

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  • Estate and Gift Planning Seminar

    May 13

    Are you working on your estate plans or need to update them?  How can you best provide for family and loved ones while also supporting your favorite charities?  Do you understand the probate process or want to avoid it?  Are you confused by the continued estate tax changes?  

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