February 2012
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Nelson Mandela
On February 11, 1990, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b. 1918), the iconic leader of the anti-apartheid struggle, was released from prison after 27 years; the whole world watched the moving event live on television.
In a speech that same day, he declared forcefully, “Our resort to the armed struggle in 1960 with the formation of the military wing of the ANC was a purely defensive action against...
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January 2012
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GMAD at 25: A History in Words and Images
By Steven G. Fullwood, Co-curator of the exhibition GMAD at 25: A History in Words and Images, and Project Director for the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, Schomburg Center
I discovered Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) in 1998, four months after I moved to New York City. At the time GMAD’s office was located in Chelsea, on14th Street. I attended one of its Friday Night Forums and was fortunate...
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Amsterdam News Writes About the Schomburg's Winter... →
We hope to see you here at the Schomburg Center!
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What Does it Mean to be "Post-Black?"
Do you use the term “post-blackness?” Do you consider yourself “post- black?” Or do you pretty much scratch your head because you’re wondering what in the world people mean when they use that term? If any of these apply to you, then you need to come to the Schomburg’s new series, Stage for Debate.
With Stage for Debate, the Schomburg launches a series of...
December 2011
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Remembering Pearl Harbor and Dorie Miller
By Christopher Moore, Author: Fighting For America: Black Soldiers, The Unsung Heroes of World War II.
Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, at 7:55 a.m., Doris “Dorie” Miller was below deck collecting laundry when his ship, the U.S.S. West Virginia, was struck by the first of five aircraft torpedoes and two 1,000-lb bombs. Miller scrambled on deck—under a hail of machine-gun fire from strafing enemy...
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Remembering Frantz Fanon
On this day, 50 years ago, Frantz Fanon passed away. A psychiatrist, Pan-Africanist, writer, and revolutionary, he was born in Martinique in 1925. In 1952 he published Black Skin, White Masks, which exposed the negative effects of colonization on the mental state of subjugated peoples.
As a psychiatrist in Algeria, he joined the FLN (National Liberation Front), which waged a war of ...
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November 2011
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11-11-11
By: Christopher Moore, Curator and Special Projects Coordinator, Schomburg Center
Veterans Day honors and remembers all of our men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Today let’s remember all and take a look at some of the 1.1 million African Americans who served during World War II, like the 555th “Triple Nickel” Paratroopers, the 666th “Hell’s Angels” Quartermaster...
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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
By Ann-Marie Nicholson, Editor, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
“The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.”
Nigerian environmentalist, author and television producer Ken Saro-Wiwa lived and died by these words...
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J. Edgar: From Garvey to Gaye
By: Christopher Moore, Curator and Special Projects Coordinator, Schomburg Center
J. Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opens nationwide on November 9, 2011. How will director Eastwood represent Hoover’s obsession with African-American leaders: from Garvey to Gaye?
From Marcus Garvey to Marvin Gaye, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s investigations of...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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