1. On February 1, the Schomburg Center will join thousands of schools, libraries, and education institutions nationwide for Digital Learning Day—sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education—for a celebration of innovative teaching and learning using digital media and technology.  Digital Schomburg offers you the Schomburg Center’s premiere educational resources about African-American History and the Global Black Experience in multi-media digital formats including: Online exhibitions, digital books, images and illustrations, and links to related free web resources. From the transatlantic slave trade to the Harlem Renaissance, from the Great Migration to Caribbean independence, from the Civil Rights Movement to 21st century Africa, discover tens of thousands of images, scholarly essays, innovative maps, and lesson plans. Jump into Digital Schomburg today via these online exhibitions:   In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave trade: The Forgotten Story Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century  The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World African Americans and American Politics Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery Harlem 1900-1940 Wherever you are in the world, the Schomburg Center is just a click away at: www.schomburgcenter.org For more information about the Schomburg’s Education Programs, email: schomburged@nypl.org

    On February 1, the Schomburg Center will join thousands of schools, libraries, and education institutions nationwide for Digital Learning Day—sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education—for a celebration of innovative teaching and learning using digital media and technology.  Digital Schomburg offers you the Schomburg Center’s premiere educational resources about African-American History and the Global Black Experience in multi-media digital formats including: Online exhibitions, digital books, images and illustrations, and links to related free web resources. From the transatlantic slave trade to the Harlem Renaissance, from the Great Migration to Caribbean independence, from the Civil Rights Movement to 21st century Africa, discover tens of thousands of images, scholarly essays, innovative maps, and lesson plans.

    Jump into Digital Schomburg today via these online exhibitions: 

     In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

    The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave trade: The Forgotten Story

    Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century 

    The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

    African Americans and American Politics

    Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery

    Harlem 1900-1940

    Wherever you are in the world, the Schomburg Center is just a click away at: www.schomburgcenter.org

    For more information about the Schomburg’s Education Programs, email: schomburged@nypl.org

  2. Amilcar Cabral (1924–1973), an agronomist and Marxist nationalist, led the fight against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. At the head of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (PAIGC), which he co-founded in 1956, Cabral launched a guerrilla war in 1963. The independence movement was supported by Kwame Nkrumah and the U.S.S.R. In January 1973, Cabral was assassinated in Conakry, Guinea, by a former rival in the PAIGC at the instigation of the Portuguese authorities. Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde declared their independence in 1974, and Luis Cabral, Amilcar’s half-brother, became the first president of Guinea-Bissau. For more information, visit www.africanaage.org

    Amilcar Cabral (1924–1973), an agronomist and Marxist nationalist, led the fight against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. At the head of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (PAIGC), which he co-founded in 1956, Cabral launched a guerrilla war in 1963.

    The independence movement was supported by Kwame Nkrumah and the U.S.S.R. In January 1973, Cabral was assassinated in Conakry, Guinea, by a former rival in the PAIGC at the instigation of the Portuguese authorities. Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde declared their independence in 1974, and Luis Cabral, Amilcar’s half-brother, became the first president of Guinea-Bissau.

    For more information, visit www.africanaage.org