Adults

If you are watching the program 'Harlem' on Amazon Prime Video, you might have seen the Schomburg Center in episode nine, titled "Secrets." Emmy and Peabody Award–winner Neema Barnette directed the episode. Learn more about this trailblazing director and find out which one of our exhibitions inspired the set created for the program.

Classics, contemporary, LGBTQ, historicals, sci-fi/fantasy, thrillers—these books still have the power to make us smile or catch our breath.

Learn about Arturo Schomburg's first bookplate.

Let our collections serve you—they’re here...waiting to become part of your story.

Martina Arroyo fue una soprano de ópera de renombre mundial desde la década de 1960 hasta 1989 cuando se retiró profesionalmente. Ella y sus contemporáneos fueron la primera generación de cantantes de ópera afroamericanos en alcanzar el éxito internacional y fueron fundamentales para superar la discriminación racial en el mundo de la ópera.

Lyudmila Sholokhova and Vladimir Levin discussed the photographer's role in documenting these institutions from their heyday to their decline in the 1960s and 1970s, when many were repurposed or demolished.

In this episode, two NYPL curators discussed the origins, content, distribution, and legacy of a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus and offered innovative ideas on how to incorporate the document into teaching about the origins of colonialism in the Americas.

Unsurprisingly, their picks focus on social justice, personal growth, and books with lessons on empathy.

Hess, the creator of children's comic books and graphic novels for adults, uses her art and storytelling to encourage conversations about caring for the environment and spark the imagination, weaving tales of fantasy and adventure.

In this episode Julie Golia and Kim Phillips-Fein explored a collection of evocative photographs of the New York City subway system in the 1970s by Alen MacWeeney, discussing what the images reveal about the city during a decade of crisis and transformation.