Past Programs

Before 5: Luvvie Ajayi and Francheska Medina
September 14
With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. I’m Judging You is her debut book of humorous essays that dissect our cultural obsessions and calls out bad behavior in our increasingly digital Read More ›
Black Power 50 Talks: Sohail Daulatzai and R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy
September 13

As part of the Schomburg’s year-long exploration of the Black Power Movement, Sohail Daulatzai, author of Fifty Years of “The Battle of Algiers”: Past as Prologue and
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Theater Talks: Sell/Buy/Date
September 12
Tony Award-winning playwright and performer Sarah Jones (Bridge & Tunnel) will take to the Schomburg stage to discuss her new one-woman play, Sell/Buy/Date. The exuberant new show is inspired by the real-life experiences of people affected by the sex industry, and preserves the full humanity of Read More ›
Heather Ann Thompson & Khalil Gibran Muhammad
September 8
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, by award-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson of University of Michigan, sheds new light on one of the most important civil rights stories of the last century—the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility uprising in upstate New Read More ›
Labor Day "Carnival" Edition
September 2
The Schomburg Center is proud to present our Carnival Edition of First Fridays, our popular monthly social gathering. Read More ›
First Friday: House Edition
August 5
The Schomburg Center is proud to present our LGBT Black Pride Edition of First Fridays, our popular monthly social gathering. Read More ›
Toni Morrison “Bench By The Road” Reception
July 24

The Toni Morrison Society will make its twentieth "Bench by the Road" placement at the Schomburg Center. The ceremony will feature Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and President of the New York Public Library, Tony Marx. The Bench by the Road Project was launched on February 18, 2006,
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First Friday "Hip Hop" Edition
May 6
The Schomburg Center is proud to present our 90s edition of First Fridays, our popular monthly social gathering. Read More ›
Estate and Gift Planning Seminar
April 18

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? Most
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"R&B DIVAS" Edition
April 1
The Schomburg Center is proud to present our 70s edition of First Fridays, our popular monthly social gathering. Read More ›
First Fridays: "70s" Edition
March 4
The Schomburg Center is proud to present our 70s edition of First Fridays, our popular monthly social gathering. Read More ›
Schomburg Society Film Screening
January 28

Schomburg Society film screening of

PAN! Our Music Odyssey

A docudrama of the people behind the steelband movement. In Trinidad & Tobago, underpriviledged urban gangs created a new musical instrument crafted from oil drums in 1939 and perfected it by the 1950s. Since then,
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First Fridays: Prince vs. Michael Jackson Edition
November 6
In celebration of iconic black horror films, the Schomburg Center is thrilled to present First Fridays: Masquerade Edition! Our monthly dance social will transform into a Halloween pageant, where attendees are encouraged to wear a costume to celebrate their favorite horror icons. There will be a Read More ›
Event Venue & Vendor Showcase
November 1
The Schomburg Center has played a pivotal role with Community Enrichment projects, so we are having the first ever Harlem based Event Venue and Vendor Showcase highlighting minority owned special event companies. Read More ›
Fall Open House: THE BLACK FANTASTIC
October 7
The Schomburg Center's annual Fall Open House is an opportunity for our audiences and patrons to access and engage with our collections, exhibitions, and programmatic offerings in an evening full of talks, performances, films and art. This year’s program is titled, The Black Fantastic, with a Read More ›
First Fridays: Masquerade Edition
October 2
In celebration of iconic black horror films, the Schomburg Center is thrilled to present First Fridays: Masquerade Edition! Our monthly dance social will transform into a Halloween pageant, where attendees are encouraged to wear a costume to celebrate their favorite horror icons. There will be a Read More ›
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies — The Young Lords Party
October 1

Schomburg Education presents this dynamic adult education series with a full line up of provocative scholars and community members committed to engaging dialogue about black freedom studies. The Spring 2015 semester is curated by professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi
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First Fridays: Labor Day “Carnival" Edition
September 4
The Schomburg Center has played a pivotal role within Caribbean communities and thrives off the support we’ve received throughout our 90-year history. That’s why we are thrilled to present First Friday: Labor Day “Carnival” Edition. Back by popular demand, our annual celebration returns Read More ›
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies - Fallen Freedom Fighters: An Evening Commemorating the Lives of Maya Angelou, Chokwe Lumumba, General Baker, Thelma Dale and Amiri Baraka
September 3

Recently, Black America lost a number of its most important cultural and political voices. This conversation is an evening commemorating the lives of Maya Angelou, Chokwe Lumumba, General Baker, Thelma Dale and Amiri Baraka with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University), Akinyele Umoja
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Schomburg Society Early Hour Viewing at the Museum of Modern Art
August 25

The Schomburg Center has collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Phillips Collection on the exhibition -- One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement
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