Select World Wide Web Resources
(arranged by subject)
This page is maintained by the website manager
with the assistance of Glendora Johnson-Cooper,
African American Studies subject librarian
AFRICA
- A-z OF African Studies on the Internet http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az_a1.html
- Africa Service http://www.africaservice.com/
- Africa Action (activism for Africa) http://www.africaaction.org/index.php
- Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Resources (an African Studies Association USA Internet Project http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
- African Studies Resources on the Web http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/resources/weblinks_AF.htm
- African Voices (online resources at the National Museum of Natural History) http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/
- Africast: Global Africa Network (U.S. based rechanneler of African media content) http://news.africast.com/
- Allafrica.com (African news aggregator) http://allafrica.com/
- Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies (Free online journal)http://www.jendajournal.com/
- Maps—Historical: Africa http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_africa.html
- Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/index.htm
AFRICANA STUDIES (Includes the field of African American studies, Afro-American Studies, Africana Studies, Pan African Studies and Black Studies)
- E-Black Studies (Empirical data on the discipline) http://www.eblackstudies.org/
- National Council for Black Studies http://www.ncbsonline.org/
- Africana Studies Programs in the U.S. http://www.eblackstudies.org/academicprograms.html
- Africana Studies Journals http://www.eblackstudies.org/journals.html
- New York African Studies Association http://nyasa.org/
ARCHIVAL PROJECTS
ART
- Studio Museum in Harlem <http://www.studiomuseum.org/>
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History <http://www.maah-detroit.org/>
- National Museum of African American Art <http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html>
- California African American Museum <http://www.caam.ca.gov/>
- Museum of the African Diaspora <http://www.moadsf.org/>
- Smithsonian Guide to the Papers of African American Artists <http://www.aaa.si.edu/guides/site-africanamerican/index.cfm>
- Narratives of African American Art and Identity <http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/driskell/index.htm>
BIOGRAPHY
- AFRO-American Almanac Biographies <http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/bio.htm>
- Gale: Free Resources: Black History: Biographies <http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/>
- African American World: Reference Room http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles.html
- Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory
- <American National Biography<http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/anbio.html> (available to UB affiliates only)
- Biographies PolySearch Engine <<http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/egyeb/poly-bio.htm>
- Biography.com Celebrates Black History Month <http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/>
- African American Women On-line Arthival Collections at Duke University <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html>
- African American Women: A research Guide (A project of the Middle Tennessee State University Lirary <http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-afam.html>
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (A Schomburg Library Project) <http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/>
- Malcolm X: A Research Site <http://brothermalcolm.net/>
- Malcolm X Project at Columbia University <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/>
- Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York <http://wings.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens/
BLOGS
- Black Edition.com (reviewed blog sites) http://www.blackedition.com/categories/blackedition.blogs.htm
- Blackprof.com http://www.blackprof.com/
- Hutchinson Political Report (Earl Ofari Hutchinson) http://earlofarihutchinson.blogspot.com/
- African American /Black Opinio Blog http://africanamericanopinion.com/
BOOKS
- Online Free Books Page (A project of the University of Pennsylvania listing over 25,000 free books on the Web) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
BUSINESS
- Survey of Business Owners http://www.census.gov/csd/sbo/
- Black Enterprise http://www.blackenterprise.com/
- Black Commentator http://www.blackcommentator.com/
- BICD (Business and Industry Data Center) http://www.bidc.state.tx.us/Black-OwnedBusinesses.htm
- National Black Chamber of Commerce http://www.nationalbcc.org/
- National Black MBA Association, Inc. http://www.nbmbaa.org/
CIVIL RIGHTS
- BAMN (Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights) <http://www.bamn.com/>
- Civil Rights Materials (on our Departmental Web site) http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/ANNOUNCE/departresources.html
- Civil Rights (An introduction by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University) http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Civil_rights
- Civil Rights Project at Harvard University http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/
- Southern Poverty Law Center (Among its many activities, tracks hate groups nationwide) http://www.splcenter.org/
- Supreme Court Cases (Current and historical decisions) http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
- U. S. Commission on Civil Rights http://www.usccr.gov/
DIGITAL PROJECTS
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
- Blacks in Europe http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/resources/blackseurope/black_europe_main.htm
- The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html>
- The Frederick Douglass Papers Project at Indiana University http://www.iupui.edu/~douglass/
- Voice of the Shuttle (Online resources in the humanities) http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
- W. E. B. DuBois (Digital DuBois at he University of Massachusetts at Amherst) http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/dubois/index.htm
DIVERSITY
- Dialogue Among Civilizations (A UNESCO project) http://www.unesco.org/dialogue2001/index.html
- One Peoples (Quarterly online newsletter on peoples of African descent) http://onepeoples.com/current/index.php
EDUCATION
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education <http://www.jbhe.com/>
- NCES Status and Trends in the Education of Blacks <http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/Vol_5/5_4/6_2.asp>
- United Negro College Fund http://www.uncf.org/
- Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/
- Brown v. Board of Education: Digital Archive at University of Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities http://hbcuconnect.com/
E-JOURNALS, E-ZINES, E-NEWS
- BBC (Use the search box at this site to locate current and archival news materials on people of African ancestry throughout the world) http://www.bbc.co.uk/
- Black Collegian Online http://www.black-collegian.com/
- Black Press http://www.blackpressusa.com/
- Black Report (African and African American news and links to major African American magazines) http://www.blackreport.com/
- Afro Centric News (African American news and resources on the Internet) http://www.afrocentricnews.com/afro/
- Ethnic NewsWatch (available to UB affiliates only) http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ethnic.html
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education http://www.diverseeducation.com/
- Frontiers: The interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad http://www.frontiersjournal.com/index.htm
- Magazines and News Sources http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/resources/magazines.htm
- Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies (UB affiliates only) http://www.safundi.com/default.asp
- World History Connected – an e-journal <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whc/2.1/index.html>
ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION LISTS
- Afam-L (African American Research and Discussions) http://www.blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/afam/
- Afroam-L (Critical issues in Pan-African Life and Culture) https://lists.aas.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/afroam-l
- American Studies Discussion Lists http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/lists2.html
- H-Net Discussion Network (Humanities and Social Sciences Discussion Lists) http://www.h-net.org/lists/
FILM
- Black Film Center Archive at Indiana Uiversity http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html
- California Newsreel http://www.newsreel.org/
- Blackfilm.com http://www.blackfilm.com/
- Oscar Mischeaux http://www.shorock.com/arts/micheaux/
- BlackFlix.com http://www.blackflix.com/
- BlackFilmMakers.net http://www.blackfilmmakers.net/
- Women Make Movies http://www.wmm.com/
- Internet Movie Data Base (IMBD) http://www.imdb.com/
FRATERNITIES
- Alpha Phi Alpha http://www.alphaphialpha.net/
- Iota Phi Theta http://www.iotaphitheta.org/
- Kappa Alpha Psi http://www.kappaalphapsi1911.com/index.asp
- Omega Psi Phi http://www.omegapsiphifraternity.org/
- Phi Beta Sigma http://www.pbs1914.org/
- Phi Delta Psi http://www.phideltapsifraternity.org/
GOVERNMENT
- Firstgov (The official gateway to U.S. Governmet sites) http://www.usa.gov/
- Occupational Outlook Handbook http://www.bls.gov/oco/
- Subject Listing of New York State Government Information http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/nystopic.html
- Federal Agencies with Statistical Programs http://www.fedstats.gov/agencies/index.html
- U.S. Congress http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
- New York State Assembly <http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/>
- New York State Senate http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/Home?OpenForm
- Canadian Government Contacts http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html
- Diplomatic List (directory of foreign embassies in the U.S.) http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/dpl/
- Foreign Consular Offices in the U.S. <http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/fco/>
- Black Population in the United States http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/black.html
- Government Minority Population Links http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWafamML1.html
- Thomas (Current and historical legislative activities of the U.S. Congress)<<http://thomas.loc.gov/>
HEALTH
- Medline Plus: African American Health http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/africanamericanhealth.html
- CDC Office of Minority Health: Black or African American Populations http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Populations/BAA/BAA.htm
- Diversity Rx (Issues of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities) http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm
- Minorities with Disabilities http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/resources/disability/disability_main.htm
HISTORY
- African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/AfricanAmerican_History.htm
- African-American Mosaic (A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
- African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship (Resources at the Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
- Facing History and Ourselves: Examining History and Human Behavior http://www.facing.org/campus/reslib.nsf
- History Cooperative (Online history scholarship) <http://www.historycooperative.org/>
- Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/
- Niagara Movement (Materials o our departmental Web site) http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/ANNOUNCE/niagaramovement/activitiespage.html
- Teaching American History http://teachingamericanhistory.org/
- PBS (Use the search box at this site to locate materials on African American history, race, etc.) http://www.pbs.org/
LAW
- Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (A one-stop site for U.S.law) http://www.law.cornell.edu/index.html
- Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law http://www.povertylaw.org/
LITERATURE
MAPS
- Maps—Historical: World (A University of Alabama Map Library Project) http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/index.html
MUSIC
- America’s Jazz Heritage (at the Smithsonian Institution) http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/
- Archives of African American Music and Culture ( A digital project at Indiana University) http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/
- Center for Black Music Research <http://www.cbmr.org/index.php>
NEWS
ORGANIZATIONS
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)http://asalh.org/
- NAACP Online http://www.naacp.org/home/
- National Urban League http://www.nul.org/
- Rainbow/Push Coalition http://www.rainbowpush.org/
PERFORMING ARTS
POLITICS
- The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies http://www.jointcenter.org/publications1/focus/index.php
RACE
- Institute on Race and Poverty (University of Minnesota) http://www.irpumn.org/website/
- Lynching (Materials on our departmental web site) http://africanamericanstudies.buffalo.edu/ANNOUNCE/vra/lynch/lynchmain.html
- Race and Ethnicity http://race.eserver.org/
- Race: The Power of an Illusion (Teaching resources for the PBS documentary) http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
RELIGION
RESEARCH (Departmental)
- Links to selected research publications by faculty http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/faculty/researchmain.html
RESEARCH CENTERS
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (One of the world’s largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the histoy and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world.) http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/default.htm
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture http://www.povertylaw.org/
SCIENCE
SLAVERY
- Slave Trade and Slavery: Images http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
- Slavery and Its Abolition http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13974&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
SORORITIES
STATISTICAL DATA
WEB SEARCH TOOLS
WOMEN STUDIES
- Womanist Theory and Research (A Journal of Womanist and Feminist-of-Color Scholarship and Art) <http://www.uga.edu/~womanist/>
- Women and Society (An Internet reference project) http://www.womenandsociety.buffalo.edu/
- Women’s Liberation Movement (An o-line archival collection at Duke University) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Last Modified: December 20, 2006