By: Alyssa Wilson Joy Bivins has been named the director of the renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library after an exhaustive search. She is the first woman to lead the center in 40 years.  RELATED: Mahogany L. Browne Named as Lincoln Center's First Poet in Residence  She served as the Associate Director of Collections and Research Services at the library since June 2020, with nearly 20 years of expertise in leadership and curatorial knowledge.   'After a year of unprecedented isolation, during which we saw the centrality of the Black Lives Matter movement, we need to come […]

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