Solange Knowles Honored by Schomburg Center
The landmark Centennial Gala brought together Black culture luminaries across arts, culture, media, and philanthropy.
Photography Andy Martinez
Solange Knowles wears Issey Miyake.
On Thursday evening, April 30th, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research library of the New York Public Library, honored Solange Knowles with the Schomburg Medal of Excellence.
The Centennial Gala celebrated 100 years of the Schomburg Center, one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the preservation, research, interpretation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diasporan, and African experiences, originally founded in 1925.
The Schomburg Medal of Excellence acknowledges Knowles’ profound contributions to shaping and preserving Black culture, history, and storytelling. Former Justsmile cover stars Tremaine Emory and Bill T. Jones were guests at the gala, amongst other medal honorees Angela Bassett, Edwidge Danticat, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Solange Knowles arrivies at the Schomburg Centennial Gala wearing Issey Miyake.
‘To be honored for my work rooted in research from such a historical Black research institution was truly a dream I feel so eternally grateful for.’
— Solange Knowles
Honorees, Angela Bassett and Solange Knowles.
Schomburg Medal of Excellence honorees: Angela Bassett, Edwidge Danticat, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Solange Knowles.
‘I’m constantly thinking about the urgency to make sure that history, honors and reverances our stories.’ — Solange Knowles
Renell Medrano and Solange Knowles.
Ming Smith and Thelma Golden.
