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Bond designed the main reading room of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in an octagonal shape, calling to mind the octagonal shape of the old churches that slaves built in the 18th and 19th centuries...
...used woods from Africa and local woods from the South in the paneling and furniture of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and the Schomburg Center...
Well, I've always enjoyed research. I first did it in the summer of 1964, when I worked for a youth program in Harlem. They sent me to the Schomburg [Center for Research in Black Culture] to do a little research, and that's where I got bit by the history bug. It's not really work...
...know of Kathleen Cleaver, the former communications secretary for the Black Panther Party, a Yale University graduate who teaches law at Emory University, a fellow at the Bunting Institute and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for the past two years, and currently a fellow at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City...
...these and other sights of Harlem, the anxious white visitor can hop a Harlem Spirituals bus at 9 some Wednesday morning. As the bus heads uptown, a guide sketches a history of the district. A walk through Hamilton Grange and Sugar Hill precedes a stop at the Schomburg Center. And then . . . nirvana. At the Manhattan Christian Reformed Church, a storefront mission run by and for recovering addicts, the Rev. Reggie Williams spins a stirring homily: "You have the power to pray when you wanna party! The power to close your veins to dope and open your brains to hope...