Khalil Gibran Muhammad

NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced today that Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a scholar of African-American history from Indiana University, has been selected as the next Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, effective July 2011.

After serving as the director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for five years, Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is finally leaving his position for a teaching job at Harvard.

On Monday, June 27, I paid a visit to New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to help a large gathering of the Schomburg’s devoted friends and visitors say goodbye — very reluctantly — to Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

Bill speaks with scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad about white supremacy in America and the power of what Martin Luther King Jr. called the "unarmed truth."

Khalil Gibran Muhammad defies classification: A historian by training, he currently directs the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, which is how he first gained the notice of Schlesinger Library staff members.