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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: (Part 2) Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Description:
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg’s collection became so big it began to overflow his...