A free guided tour of the Schomburg's new exhibition "To Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburg’s Library"

Justin Leroy discusses how nineteenth-century Black thinkers challenged narrow definitions of freedom and argued that economic justice was essential to emancipation.

They were “Damned Old Fools on Books.” That’s what the Philadelphia bibliophile William Carl Bolivar told Arturo Schomburg, his younger counterpart in New York, as the two men exchanged book lists,…

By Michelle Caswell and Bergis Jules

The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.

The exhibit included the names and other biographical details about the nine people enslaved by the Washingtons at the presidential mansion.

A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro–Pu...

Whatever you're looking for, chances Minneapolis has a bookstore that will suit you. Check out our top picks for local independent bookstores in the city.

Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the winner of the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Located in Toronto, Ontario, The ArQuives is one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world. Primarily a volunteer-run organization focusing on Canadian content, The ArQuives acquires, preserves,...

The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...