‘A COUNTER-NARRATIVE OF HISTORY’: NYC’S SCHOMBURG CENTER’S 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING BLACK CULTURE
(Melissa Hellmann’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/9/2026; A photo of the Afro-Puerto Rican archivist Arturo Schomburg, a bibliophile whose personal collection formed the Schomburg’s foundation a century ago. Photograph: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library.) A Puerto Rico-born New Yorker’s relentless collecting on the […]