Visit to the Schomburg Center (General museum visit - 2 pts.) - Alyssa Amaker
As a new New York Public Library card holder, I visited the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem for the first time. I enjoyed perusing the Arturo Schomburg exhibition, which felt like a mini museum within the library. The workers were very kind in directing me to the various exhibits and literature collections in the building, and I felt at home upon entering. I was very excited to find an extensive catalog collection of Melville Herskovits' scholarship on African studies. Despite the fact that I generally disagreed with his African Retention Theory when I learned about it in an Africana class at Morehouse, it felt nice to see the name of a scholar I recognized despite being so far from the AUC. I'm excited to return to the Schomburg for more community events and archival research sessions for my personal research! - Alyssa Amaker
