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Schomburg

American  
[shom-burg] / ˈʃɒm bɜrg /

noun

  1. Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on Black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.


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William Schomburg, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross sub-delegation in Gaza, told the BBC that hospitals had been operating non-stop to deal with the casualties.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2023

William Schomburg said medics were working around the clock while also dealing with personal tragedies.

From Reuters Oct. 28, 2023

“History must restore what slavery took away,” Arturo Schomburg wrote in his 1925 classic “The Negro Digs Up His Past” — a line this show prints above Velázquez’s portrait of Pareja.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2023

“Over surveillance leads to mass family separation,” Schomburg wrote in a recent blog post.

From Seattle Times Apr. 28, 2022

We got to the Schomburg library and went downstairs to the reference room.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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