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APOLLO THEATER
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
515 Malcolm X Blvd at W 135th St. Subway B, C, #2, #3 to 135th St.
212 491 2200,
Primarily a research library, the
Schomburg Center
also holds enlightening temporary ex-
hibitions held in three galleries on site - recent topics have included the struggle to end se-
gregation in US schools. The library itself was created in 1925 by Arthur Schomburg, a
black Puerto Rican obsessed with documenting black culture. Further enriching the site are
the ashes of poet Langston Hughes, perhaps most famous for publishing
The Negro Speaks
of Rivers
in 1921. The poem inspired the terrazzo and brass “cosmogram” in the atrium bey-
ond the main entrance. Seven lines radiate out from a circle, and the last, “My soul has
grown deep like the rivers”, located in the centre, marks where he is interred.
ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH
132 Odell Clark Place (W 138th St) off Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd. Subway #2, #3 to 135th St.
212 862
7474,
www.abyssinian.org
. Tourists are welcome to the Sun 11am service only (2hr 30min). Free.
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