By Jessi Mitchell As we celebrate Black History Month, one institute in Harlem is dedicated to the achievements of African-Americans every day of the year. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is marking its 100th year with a new generation of librarians to preserve more than 11 million items in the archive. “It takes money, it takes people, it takes historical understanding,” said Anika Paris, an archivist who keeps watch over albums and video clips in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division. “Everybody thinks that everything is just like available via Google,” Paris continued. “There’s a lot of stuff
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