Past Programs

Rokhaya Diallo, Afro-Parisienne journalist, antiracism activist, and award-winning filmmaker, turned her camera on an emerging generation of black activists who, in the wake of the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, were able to mobilize international opinion in favor of the protests in 

In her groundbreaking book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, documents the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. She will be in conversation with 

Enjoy exciting talks on works in progress on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. Westenley Alcenat, PhD Candidate Columbia University, Lapidus Center Fellow Prince Saunders and African-American Emigration to Haiti: A Transatlantic Career in the Quest for 

Imbolo Mbue’s debut novel, Behold the Dreamers, is the story of one immigrant family from Cameroon whose fates collide with the collapse of financial markets in 2009. Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner, described Mbue’s writing as “startlingly beautiful, thoughtful, and both 

James Barnor is credited with documenting two iconic times in history and being  an advocate of diversifying the field of photography. At the age of 17, a camera given to Barnor by his headmaster would serve as a catalyst for his lifelong career as a photographer and photojournalist of changing 

Join us for our debut community archives program, “Everyday Archives,” a series of workshops with the public where Schomburg community members can process their personal and family papers, documents, manuscripts, photographs, etc. 

Nine contemporary artists respond to excerpts from documents written by leaders of the American Revolution in the current public art exhibition Race and Revolution, curated by Katie Fuller on Governor’s Island in New York. Nell I. Painter, a leading historian of the United States, and the