Schomburg Center and African Film Festival Inc screen Bigger Than Africa in Harlem

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Photo credit: Isseu Diouf Campbell In partnership with the African Film Festival Inc, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture held in Harlem, a Black History Month screening of Bigger Than Africa, a film by Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye documenting … Read More

Society for Africans in the Diaspora honors NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray at 9th ADA Awards in Harlem

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Photos: Yaw Asare Aboagye Society for Africans in the Diaspora presented the Harriet Tubman’s Person of the Year Award to NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray at its 9th Annual African Diaspora Awards held at the Schomburg Center for Research in … Read More

The Schomburg center to host a free screening of Sembene!

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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will host on May 26, 2016, at 6:30 pm a free screening of Sembene!, a film told through the never-before-seen archival footage of colleague and biographer Samba Gadjigo. Sembene! tells the story … Read More