Africa Speaks - Encouraging a deeper reflection into history to shed light on our past, present and future.
African American Literature Book Club - Widely recognized source of author profiles, book recommendations, on-line discussion boards, writer's resources, articles, and critical reviews of books written by and about African-Americans.
African American Women's History - Uncover the history of African-American women: the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights. Biographies, organizations, events and movements.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) - Provides tables of contents and and abstracts from over 180 African-published peer-reviewed journals, with links to the full text if available.
Africana Library - The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, also known as the Africana Library provides a special collection focusing on the history and culture of people of Africana ancestry. There are over 18,000 volumes in the collection. The library supports the curriculum of Cornell University's Africana Studies & Research Center. University-wide the library serves as a bibliographic reference and referral center by providing access to African, African Americans, and Caribbean resources available either in the Cornell University Library or collections at other institutions.
Africana Studies Department - Designed to explore African civilizations and their influences on otherparts of the "Black Diaspora." Issues within the black international communities in Africa, the United States, and elsewhere will be examined from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Particular attention is focused on political concepts, cultural development, legal relations, and social theories.
Africans in America - A companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The site is structured into four parts, corresponding to the periods covered by the episodes of the companion television series. For each part, there is a Narrative, which relates the history of the period and provides links to specific entries in the Resource Bank. The Resource Bank is a compilation of over 400 items, comprised of People and Events entries (in-depth biographies and historical notes), Historical Documents (annotated visual materials and texts), and Modern Voices (commentaries excerpted from the original interviews with experts who appear on-camera in the television series).
Afro-Louisiana History and geneology 1719-1820 - In 1984, a professor at Rutgers University stumbled upon a trove of historic data in a courthouse in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Over the next 15 years, Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a noted New Orleans writer and historian, painstakingly uncovered the background of 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries making fortunes for their owners.
AfroCubaWeb - Blacks in Cuba: Yoruba, Congo, Old Dahomey, and the Efik/Efo from the Cross River Delta (Nigeria), giving birth to Abakwa and Brikamo. In addition, Cuba hosts a number of communities from the diaspora, especially the Caribbean - Jamaica, the Bahamas, and other English speaking islands as well as Haiti.
American Slave Narratives - From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives.
Assata Shakur Speaks - On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur (fsn) JoAnne Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 and moving to Cuba.
Black Agenda Report - Journal of African-American political action and thought.
Black America Web (BAW) - Internet community and comprehensive source of information for and about African-Americans.
Black Archives of Mid-America - An educational resource as well as a repository of every facet in African-American culture; music, art, theater, education, the military, medicine, sports, religion, and community affairs.
Breaking Racial Barriers - Harmon Foundation collection recognizing African American achievements in the fine arts, business, education, farming, literature, music, race relations, religious service and science.
Chimurenga - A publication, of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its Diasporas.
Clarke, John Henrik - Pan-Africanist, author, poet, historian, journalist, lecturer and teacher. Biographical information, selected writings and lectures. Also see Wikipedia backgrounder, the John Henrik Clarke Virtual Museum, and the video chronicling his life and times: John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk. The latter film offers a provocative look at the past through the eyes of this leading proponent of an Afrocentric view of history. From ancient Egypt and Africa's other great empires, Clarke moves through Mediterranean borrowings, the Atlantic slave trade, European colonization, the development of the Pan-African movement, and present-day African-American history.
Congressional Black Caucus (U.S. Congress) - Pursues an empowerment issues agenda, including voting rights, access to technology, access to capital, early health care and expanding the U.S. relationship with Africa and the Caribbean. Also see Members Directory.
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) - An independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined. It is recognised not only as the pioneer African social research organisation but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent.
Eyes on the Prize - A critically acclaimed 14-part series on the dealing with the American Civil Rights Movement, was broadcast nationally by the PBS. The first six programs, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) was aired in January and February of 1987. The eight-part sequel, Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads (1965-1985) was broadcast in 1990. Eyes on the Prize is the most important documentary ever made about the Civil Rights Movement--but copyright restrictions have kept it from the public for the past 10 years.
Farrakhan, Louis - Leader and the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as the national representative of Elijah Muhammad. He is also well-known as an advocate for African-American interests and a critic of American society. Farrakhan currently resides in Kenwood, an affluent neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, and part time at a Nation of Islam farm in New Buffalo, Michigan. Also see Final Call.
Free Africa Foundation - Engages in many activities that further the cause of freedom in Africa and propagate ideas on liberty. The Foundation publishes a newsletter, Freedom Bulletin, which is distributed to members and The Free Africa Review. This quarterly journal examines the progress made on economic and political reform in Africa, the nature of obstacles encountered and how to overcome them.
Gale: Black History Month - Resources from Gale, including: black history month activities, biographies of significant African-American individuals, African-American literature resources, black history timeline.
Global African Prescence, The -
A growing list of articles about the ancient African presence in many countries around the world as well as many articles on African-American history
written by by Runoko Rashidi.
Harlem: 1900-1940 - Harlem: 1900-1940 was originally published in 1991 by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. It was compiled and written by Nashormeh N. R. Lindo and designed by Kenneth McFarlin and Alice Cheung. Howard Dodson, Betty Gubert, Jim Huffman, Kim Jefferson, Deborah Willis, Roberta Yancy and Donna Mussenden-Van der Zee provided invaluable assitance and support.
Harlem Renaissance - In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression.
HistoryMakers - Dedicated to preserving African American history as the missing link in American history. Focused on American history, oral history and education in general and more specifically on African American history, education, music, law, the arts, science, technology, media, medicine, entertainment, fashion and beauty, business, the military, politics and sports.
Incognegro, A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid - Frank B. Wilderson, III is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press) and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro "an important contribution to the African and African-American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures, Black American and Black South African."
Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) - Seeks to rekindle the historic legacy of scholar-activists , women and men, who founded the original IBW in 1970. In that spirit, through research, analysis and advocacy, IBW 21st Century is committed to building the capacity of the Black Community to struggle against racism, sexism and oppression of any form, to work for the social, political, economic and cultural uplift and development of Black America and the Global Black Community and an enhanced quality of life for all oppressed people. The objective of the struggle is to acquire and maintain power, to reconstruct our communities, to build viable and vital nations, to create greater unity among people of African descent and to transform our condition as oppressed people inspired by the vision of a new, non-exploitative social order.
James, C.L.R. Archive - Author of The Black Jacobins (1938), Breaking a Boundary (1963), and volumes of essays involving class and race antagonism, West Indian self-determination, cricket, Marxism, and aesthetics, C.L.R. James passed away in May, 1989. James' materialist intervention into the issues of civil rights, race, class, Communism, cultural production and reception positions him at the center of the leading Marxist interpretors of colonialism and anticolonial struggle in the twentieth century. James' encyclopedeic knowledge of literature, cricket, and politics enabled him to write a prolific body of work over his lengthy career--works including the drama Toussaint Louverture, the novel Minty Alley, and a Trotskyist analysis of the Third International entitled World Revolution. Although James was ideologically to part ways with Trotsky the late 1940's, he continued to insist upon a class analysis of race and culture from the extreme left. See "C.L.R. James: an Introduction." Also see bio "C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century", the C.L.R. James Institute, and Wikipedia article on James.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies - Founded in 1970 by black intellectuals and professionals to provide training and technical assistance to newly elected black officials, the Joint Center is recognized today as one of the nation's premier think tanks on a broad range of public policy issues of concern to African Americans and other communities of color.
Joseph, Peniel J. - A leading scholars of African-American history, with formal expertise in the Black Radial Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Black Social Movements, African American feminism, and the Black Power Movement.
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) - Champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford - A major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated.
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies - Northwestern University. The largest separate Africana collection in existence. Its scope is as wide as the continent of Africa itself; its subject matter ranges from art, history, literature, music, and religion to communications, management, and cooking. The Africana collection is a resource for the entire university, and most of Northwestern's disciplinary programs are reflected in the collection.
Monticello African American Oral History Project: Getting Word - Monticello, the residence of Thomas Jefferson for almost sixty years, was also home to a vital African-American community. This project locates and records the oral histories of the descendants of Monticello's enslaved African-American community.
Nation of Islam (NOI) - Official site. The NOI is a religious and social/political organization founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930 with the self-proclaimed goal of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of the black man and woman of America. NOI also promotes the belief that Allah will bring about a universal government of peace. Also see Final Call and Wikipedia article.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - The oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S., whose legacy includes the work of pioneers such as W.E.B DuBois, Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkens. From investigations of mob brutality, protests of mass murders, segregation and discrimination, to testimony before congressional committees on tactics used to bar African-Americans from the ballot box, the tenacity of NAACP members has saved lives and changed many negative aspects of American society.
Also see NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) - An association of lawyers, scholars, judges, legal workers, law students and legal activists. Its mission is to serve as the legal arm of the movement for Black Liberation, to protect human rights, to achieve self-determination of Africa and African Communities and to work in coalition to assist in ending oppression of all peoples.
National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) - Recording, preserving, and distributing through various media, the wisdom of extraordinary African-American elders - Visionaries - who have shaped American history.
New Jim Crow, The: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness -
"In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America."
Also see Democracy Now! interview with Alexander.
NewBlackMan -
Mark Anthony Neal's blog and webcast.
Our Shared History: African American Heritage - U.S. National Park Service (NPS) site presenting exhibits items, historic locations, publications, and tools for learning dedicated to African-American history.
Race and History -
A collection of resources and links, categorized by continent, for exploring ancient, prehistoric and early people of the world.
Race Traitor - Winner of the 1997 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Race Traitor anthology contains selections from the first five issues of the journal which first appeared in the fall of 1992 as well as a comlete listing of back issues and information about their availability.
Sanchez, Sonia - Sanchez formed a writers' workshop in Greenwich Village, attended by such poets as Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), and Larry Neal. Along with Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, and Etheridge Knight, she formed the "Broadside Quartet" of young poets, introduced and promoted by Dudley Randall. She married and divorced Albert Sanchez, a Puerto Rican immigrant whose surname she has used when writing, and the poet Etheridge Knight, with whom she had three children. During the early 1960s she was an integrationist, supporting the philosophy of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). But after considering the ideas of Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, who believed blacks would never be truly accepted by whites in the United States, she focused more on her black heritage from a separatist point of view. Sanchez began teaching in the San Francisco area in 1965 and was a pioneer in developing black studies courses at what is now San Francisco State University, where she was an instructor from 1968 to 1969. In 1971 she joined the Nation of Islam, but by 1976 she had left the Nation, largely because of its repression of women. Sonia Sanchez is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry.
SeeingBlack.com - Offers Black perspectives on film, television, politics, media, music, literature, sports, spirituality, health, visual arts, theater, dance, the diaspora, family and news.
Sertima, Ivan van - A mild-mannered scholar of British-Caribbean background, Ivan van Sertima unleashed a revolution in the popular historical imagination with his 1977 book They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America. In that book, van Sertima argued that explorers from the great cultures of ancient Egypt had traveled to the Western Hemisphere and deeply influenced pre-Columbian cultures there, in contrast with other possible early visitors such as the Vikings, who left few cultural traces of their presence. Along with van Sertima's later work exploring other facets of African influence in ancient cultures, the book stands at the center of efforts to develop African-centered models of primary and secondary education.
He is the editor of the Journal of African Civilizations, which he founded in 1979 and has published several major anthologies which have influenced the development of multicultural curriculum in the United States.
The Root - Thought-provoking commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives.
TransAfrica Forum - A major research, educational, and organizing institution educating the general public – particularly African Americans – on the economic, political and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Transition - African zine with aritcles about literary and racial politics, sex, stereotypes, and war.
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard University) - The Du Bois Institute's Fellows Program forms the nucleus around which a stimulating array of lecture series, readings, colloquia, conferences, and forums, as well as research, archival, and publications projects revolve.
We Shall Overcome - Study the history of the civil rights movement and make virtual visits to the sites where the campaign for equality took place.
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