Month: February 2014

On Saturday, February 1, BookUp students from CAMBA at Andreis Hudde Jr. High in Brooklyn, I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, and University Settlement’s STRIDE Program in Manhattan visited the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem. Students enjoyed the Schomburg’s exhibitions on the history of Motown and “Funky Turns 40,” a celebration of positive black cartoon characters since the 1970s. The group paid tribute to Langston Hughes, whose birthday is February 1st, by reading a Hughes poem aloud around the cosmogram where the poet’s ashes are buried inside the Schomburg Center. The BookUp group then had lunch at Spoonbread, also in Harlem, and finished up the afternoon shopping for books at Barnes & Noble on the Upper East Side.