"[T]he Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database offers 53,000 citations...A further change is the extension of the time line covered by the "Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa" bibliography to include 2000-04 materials. A significant new addition is a link to DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa...[T]his project covers 40 full-text periodicals representing national and regional, black and white South African political viewpoints issued during the apartheid era, 1950-94!, and equivalent to 55,000 pages of text. Also new is a link to African Studies Abstracts Online." (Choice Reviews Online, Dec. 2005)

"Created and maintained by Karen Fung, curator of the African Collection at Stanford University Libraries...[Africa South of the Sahara]...has been expanded to browsing by individual countries, with regional links a secondary option. New...is "Breaking Africa News," which offers African journalism resources in order of currency; it begins with BBC World Service--Africa.

Encyclopedia of information about African American life and experiences published by Greenwood Press.  Including: History, Biography, Literature, Arts, Music, Pop Culture, Folklore, Business, Slavery, Civil Rights, Politics, Sports, Education, Science & Technology, etc.

Includes material from major reference sets; includes many primary documents, manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, etc.; includes  over 4,000 interviews with former slaves—the WPA slave narratives—from the acclaimed The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography; “In their Own Voices” audio clips, such as interviews with former slaves and music files.

The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC)  features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, published in March 2005, the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience.

"This definitive site...offers several academic and professional resources: a list of programs for individuals seeking a career in African studies; a comprehensive listing of online periodicals related to Africa; a directory of institutions, libraries, collections, and research centers centered on Africa for scholars; and a comprehensive list of all periodicals with African-related subjects. The material is organized alphabetically, geographically, and topically... The Web site generously links to other Web sites...

New York Public Library's free, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from its collection.

Directory created by C. Arthur Blair of African American Resources

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Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.

Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience

At the heart of Black Studies Center is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience. This unique database examines interdisciplinary topics on the African experience throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines along with important research articles, images, film clips and more. The essays are contributed by leading academic experts who have surveyed and analysed the most important existing research literature in their respective fields.

International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)

IIBP includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. See this journal title list (Excel format) for periodicals included. Most IIBP records in the current coverage contain an abstract, and additionally many IIBP records contain the corresponding full text of the original article. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline. The journal list was prepared with the guidance of an advisory board including librarians specializing in Black Studies: Carol A. Rudisell, Associate Librarian, University of Delaware Library and Dorothy Ann Washington, Librarian, Black Cultural Center, Purdue University.

The Marshall Index was compiled by Albert P. Marshall, an African-American librarian at the State Teachers College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and first published as a quarterly magazine, A Guide to Negro Periodical Literature, from 1941 to 1946. It was the first index to black serials ever compiled and covers 42 of the leading African-American periodicals between 1940 and 1946. The Marshall Index was published in a revised single-volume print edition by ProQuest in 2002, edited by James Danky and Richard Newman, and is now made available online through Black Studies Center.

The Chicago Defender

BSC provides the full text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.

Black Literature Index

Black Studies Center includes the electronic index to the Black Literature microfiche collection. This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article.

"Including the large and important signature areas "Arts and Culture," "The Neighborhood," and "Politics," this Web site expresses the stellar inspiration of Harlem: it is not just a place in New York City but a state of mind. Described as a crucible by some historians and students of American studies, Harlem reflected the difficulties of living and working in a predominantly black environment. From the hard times of the 1920s throughout the 20th century, Harlem was home to generations of creative artists: novelists, poets, musicians (jazz especially), and actors.

"In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and Black History month, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspaper pages about Dr. King has been released on MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com...The website is a free service of NewspaperARCHIVE.com and contains original stories about the Montgomery bus boycott, the 'I Have A Dream' speech, details about King's assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other headlines detailing Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and work."

The web site for The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Their mission is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

"This Web site from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is...browsable by 30 subject categories. Topics related to African and African American culture include 'Art and Artists,' 'Dance,' 'Education,' 'Films,' 'Law, Politics and Government,' 'Religion,' 'Military,' 'Science and Technology,' and 'Theater Companies.' The link to 'Photographs and Images' includes a selective list of photographic archives valuable to the African American experience..." (Choice Reviews Online, June 2006)