This connection led to his employment by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen's magazine, The Messenger, the group's journal.

Schuyler's column, "Shafts and Darts: A Page of Calumny and Satire", came to the attention of Ira F. Lewis, manager of the Pittsburgh Courier, which was one of the leading African American newspapers in the United States.

"[6][7] In 1926, the Pittsburgh Courier sent Schuyler on an editorial assignment to the South, where he developed his journalistic protocol: ride with a cab driver, then chat with a local barber, bellboy, landlord, and policeman.

[8] Langston Hughes's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", a response to Schuyler's piece, appeared in the same magazine.

[10] In an article for the American Mercury entitled Black America Begins to Doubt, Schuyler wrote: "On the horizon loom a growing number of iconoclasts and Atheists, young black men and women who can read, think and ask questions; and who impertinently demand to know why Negroes should revere a god that permits them to be lynched, Jim-Crowed, and disenfranchised".

He also positively reviewed Georg Brandes' book Jesus: A Myth in an article called "Disrobing Superstition."

In his review, Schuyler states:"It is doubtful whether any intelligent person accepts the Jesus Christ of the Scriptures as a fact.

His alleged exploits, career, death and resurrection can only be wholly swallowed by the same gullible folk who swarm into the sideshows at Coney Island; who believe that George Washington never told a lie; that Congressmen are exceptionally honorable; that the YMCA is something other than a training school for young babbits, or that the common people rule this country.

Thus, while this book will be read with interest by the intelligent minority, it will be shoved into the trash can with shocked silence by Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Holy Rollers, Christian Scientists, Rotarians and such folk.

[citation needed] By the late 1930s, Schuyler was moving away from his previous socialist views and his columns at the Pittsburgh Courier became increasingly critical of the Roosevelt administration.

For many of the same reasons, Schuyler, who was investigated by the FBI because of his columns, condemned the Sedition Trial of 1944 of thirty right wing critics of Roosevelt.

In 1964, Schuyler wrote a controversial opinion column in the ultraconservative Manchester Union Leader that opposed Martin Luther King Jr.'s being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

He wrote, "Dr. King's principal contribution to world peace has been to roam the country like some sable Typhoid Mary, infecting the mentally disturbed with perversions of Christian doctrine, and grabbing fat lecture fees from the shallow-pated.

While acknowledging that white discrimination against blacks was "morally wrong, nonsensical, unfair, un-Christian and cruelly unjust", he opposed federal action to coerce changes in public attitudes.

Despite the inherent unfairness of racial discrimination, he considered federal intrusion into private affairs an infringement on individual liberty, explaining that "it takes lots of time to change social mores, especially with regard to such hardy perennials as religion, race and nationality, to say nothing of social classes.

"[16] In 1964, he ran for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 18th congressional district on the Conservative Party ticket[17] and endorsed Republican candidate Barry Goldwater for president.

"[18][19] Outlets for Schuyler's written work diminished until he was a more obscure figure by the time of his death in 1977.

[22] Schuyler married Josephine Lewis Cogdell, a liberal white Texan heiress and writer, in 1928.

[23][24] Their daughter, Philippa Schuyler (1931–1967), was a child prodigy and noted concert pianist, who later followed in her father's footsteps and embarked on a career in journalism.