The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrated its 100th anniversary at its Centennial Gala on April 30 by honoring six people for outstanding achievements in their respective fields of arts, culture, literature, and scholarship. The honorees include:
- Edwidge Danticat, the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities and a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies;
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the distinguished historian and professor;
- Angela Bassett, actress and producer;
- Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of “The 1619 Project” and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine;
- Solange Knowles, a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and visionary curator whose works have expanded the boundaries of contemporary music, art, and cultural resonance; and
- Gregory Gourdet, a three-time James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef, best-selling author, and television personality.
The Schomburg Center is the research center of the New York Public Library and features diverse programming and collections spanning over 11 million items that illuminate the richness of global black history, arts, and culture.
For more information about the event, read more on the New York Public Library website.
