African Diaspora on the Internet

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Note: For online news see: Selected Online News Sites of the African Diaspora

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  • Kimbilio for Black Fiction (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas)
    "We are a community of writers and scholars committed to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora and their stories."
    --See especially: Authors -and- Fellows
  • kweliTV. (Brooklyn, New YorK)
    ***Note: this is a commercial site. "kweliTV celebrates global Black stories and amplifies Black storytellers from North America, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Australia. Our mission is to curate and create content that is a true reflection of the global Black experience that’s oftentimes missing in traditional media...As a Black-owned media company, we believe storytelling can be a catalyst for change, connect communities and sparks activism."

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  • Latin American Network Information Center: African Diaspora (2015) (University of Texas, Austin)
    A compilation of Internet resources on African peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, DC)
    "The Lawyers’ Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963...The principle mission is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities."
    -- See especially: Newsroom
  • Left of Black (Department of African American and African Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
    This site offers a video archive of an interview series hosted by Professor Mark Anthony Neal, begun in 2010. See also: NewBlackMan (in Exile) below
  • Liberated Africans (Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    A digital resource built around selected "proceedings for about 1,000 trials, registers containing biographical sketches for people removed from slave ships (including physical descriptions), labor contracts, anti-slavery legislation, correspondence on resettlement policies, images of captured slave ships, and even photographs of some liberated Africans."
  • Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Federation of Liberian Mandingo Associations in the USA (FELMAUSA)
    An online community news magazine for this ethnically-based, Liberian-American organization (founded in 1990s) and for news about Liberia and the Liberian diaspora in general, with links to related web sites.

  • The Library of Congress: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Washington, DC)  (See below)
  • Little Known Black Librarian Facts (2025) (Michele Fenton, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana)
    "A blog devoted to the history of African American librarians and library services to African Americans." The site includes a useful list of related links to organizations and other web sites, which is a who's who of African American librarians in US history.
  • London Museum: "Neil Kenlock’s Photos of 1970s Black London." (2019) (London, UK)
    Part of the "London Stories" series, this brief article provides an overview of the collection with selected photographic images. "Neil Kenlock photographed for publications aimed at Black readers in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the official photographer of the British Black Panthers. When simplistic, often negative, stereotypes were common, Kenlock highlighted Black people’s strength and personality"
  • Low Country Africana: African American Genealogy and History in SC, GA and FL (Magnolia Plantation Foundation, Charleston, South Carolina)
    "...entirely dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida..."
  • Low Country Digital History Initiative (College of Charleston, South Carolina)
    "[Since 2013] ...LDHI projects are developed through a collaborative network of academic scholars, librarians, archivists, public historians, and students."
    --See LDHI Exhibitions
  • LUNDU: Centro de Estudos y Promoción Afroperuanos (Lima, Perú)
    "LUNDU, fundada en el 2001, es una institución sin fines de lucro que busca el desarrollo de la población afro descendiente a través de la lucha contra el racismo, sexismo y otras formas de discriminación desde una perspectiva intercultural, intergeneracional y de género."
    --Publicaciones

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  • Obama Foundation: Leaders : Africa -and- My Brother's Keeper Alliance (Chicago, Illinois and Washington, DC, USA)
    Leaders--Africa: "...a one-year leadership development and civic engagement program designed to train, support, and connect emerging African leaders working to create positive change in their communities...and the MBK Alliance, which focuses on building safe and supportive communities for boys and young men of color where they feel valued and have clear pathways to opportunity."
  • Obama Presidency Oral History Project, 2019-2024 (Columbia University, New York, USA)
    "Over the next five years, the Columbia Center for Oral History Research will conduct roughly 400 interviews with a diverse range of individuals...The work will commence the summer of 2019 and is expected to be completed in roughly five years. At the conclusion of the project, the transcripts of each interview will be posted on Columbia’s website for all interviewees who have given permission to do so."

  • Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center: African American Resource Guide (Oklahoma City, OK)
    --See also: Guide to Manuscript Collections: African American History
    --For resources on Tulsa, see: "Tulsa, Oklahoma--Black Wall Street" below

  • Ontario Black History Society (Toronto, Canada)
    • "Founded in 1978, the OBHS is the organization in Canada that is at the forefront in the celebration of Black history and heritage with a demonstrated record in the study, preservation and promotion of Black history in Ontario."
    • OBHS Blog
    • Historical profiles

  • Operation Black Vote in the UK (See "Great Britain" above)

  • Oregon Black Pioneers (Salem Oregon)
    "Oregon Black Pioneers is Oregon’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of African Americans statewide."
    --See especially: 2018 Exhibition: "Racing to Change"
  • O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park)
    "This project collects, digitizes, and makes accessible the freedom suits brought by enslaved families in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, Maryland state courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In making these documents accessible, the project invites you to explore the legal history of American slavery and the web of litigants, jurists, legal actors, and participants in the freedom suits."

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  • The George Padmore Institute (London, UK)
    "GPI was set up in 1991. It grew out of a community of people connected with New Beacon Books, Britain's first black publisher and bookshop, and its founder John La Rose. The Institute is an archive, educational research and information centre housing materials and documents relating mainly to black communities of Caribbean, African and Asian descent in post-war Britain and continental Europe...Most of the archival records held by the GPI are records of struggles, both originating from and providing information on struggles in the UK, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, as well as other regions of the world...especially from the 1960s to the 1990s."
    --Search the GPI Archive Catalogue
  • George Padmore Collection, 1933-1945 at Princeton University Library--Manuscript Division (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)
  • PAFF: Pan African Film & Arts Festival (Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia)
    General information, film & festival schedules, art show, and related links.....festivals in Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia. "Established in 1992, The Pan African Film & Art Festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to the exhibition of Black films." 
    --See especially: PAFF 2022--Film Guide, April 19-May 1, 2022, Los Angeles
  • PANAFEST '66 '69 '74 '77 (Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent ...[et al.], Chimurenga, Cape Town, South Africa)
    An open access, web documentary site --in French and some English-- videos of over 50 interviews with participants in the 4 key international pan-African festivals in Africa during the period 1966-1977: FESMAN--First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar, 1966); PANAF--First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969); Festival Zaïre 74 (Kinshasa, 1974) ; and FESTAC--Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (Lagos, 1977).
  • Pan-African News Wire (Abayomi Azikiwe, Detroit, Michigan)
    A news and commentary blog on global African affairs since 2005!
  • Pan African Space Station (Cape Town, South Africa)
    "Founded by Chimurenga in collaboration with musician and composer Neo Muyanga in 2008, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a periodic, pop-up live radio studio; a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive, as well as an ongoing, internet based radio station."
    --See especially: PASS Blog -and- PASS Radio Archive --via M-X Cloud
  • School of Pan African Thought (London, UK)
    "...an independent education and policy think tank that works to protect the human rights of African and African Caribbean people."
    --See especially: Videos -and- Papers or Speeches
  • PBS Online on the African Diaspora -- Selected Program Web Sites (Public Broadcasting Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia)
  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania : Guide to African American Collections -and- African Immigrant Experience--Lesson Plans (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
    "The guide to the African American Collections provides an overview of resources, including manuscripts, books, pamphlets, serials, prints, broadsides, other graphics, and microfilm...The lesson plans on "African Immigrants" includes links to a collection of documents meant to share some of what the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies learned through exploring the experiences of new African Immigrants."
    --See also: Extended Lives:The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia
  • For Peru see: LUNDU above
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, A Resource for Students and Teachers. 2015.
  • Philadelphia The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois' Seventh Ward (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
    This site features oral histories, teaching resources, videos, and other documents relating to W.E.B. Du Bois' pioneering sociological study of the African American community in late nineteenth century Philadelphia. "The Ward is a research, teaching, and public history project dedicated to sharing the timeless lessons about racism and the role of research in affecting social change from W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1899 book, The Philadelphia Negro."
  • Don't Shoot Portland (Portland, Oregon)
    "Don’t Shoot Portland is Black-led and community driven. Founded in 2014 by Teressa Raiford, we are a direct community action plan that advocates for accountability to create social change."
  • Projeto Cultural Dacosta (José Luiz Pereira da Costa, Dacosta Comércio Exterior Ltda., Porto Alegre, Brasil)
    This site features an extensive digital library of texts selected and translated into Portuguese by a Brazilian businessman/scholar. The texts are by historic figures of African descent, reflecting their contributions to African cultural studies, pan-Africanism, and the liberation struggles of peoples of African descent. There are also selected works by Machado de Assis--the Brazilian literary icon and a library of selected Afro-Brazilian and African music files.
  • Projeto Querino (Tiago Rogero, Instituto Ibirapitanga, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
    "O projeto Querino é um projeto jornalístico brasileiro lançado em 6 de agosto de 2022, como um podcast produzido pela Rádio Novelo e uma série de publicações na revista piauí. A iniciativa é inspirada no '1619 Project', criado pela jornalista norte-americana Nikole Hannah-Jones e lançado em agosto de 2019 pela 'The New York Times Magazine'. O projeto Querino lança um olhar afrocentrado sobre a História do Brasil: mostra alguns dos principais momentos (como a Independência, em 1822, ou a Abolição, em 1888) sob a ótica dos africanos e de seus descendentes."
    -- Podcasts
    -- Matérias
  • Radio Pulaar Speaking Association, USA (Brooklyn, New York)

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  • QBR - The Black Book Review Online (New York)
    The web site includes highlights -- book reviews and interviews -- from the print magazine about African American authors and their work (published 6 times per year) ; plus subscription information and related links.
    --See also: Harlem Book Fair

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  • Savannah, Georgia: "Unearthing the Weeping Time" (See below)

  • The Say Brother Collection -- WGBH Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
    The website of the archive of a local public television program (1968-1982), featuring a searchable program directory and an extensive digital gallery of sample film excerpts. "Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers..."
  • Say it Plain, Say it Loud: A Century of African American Speeches (Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith, American RadioWorks, American Public Radio, St. Paul, Minnesota)
    The web site for two American Public Radio programs on the civil rights struggles of African Americans in the United States since 1895. The narrative is built around selected excerpts from recorded lectures and speeches made by famous African Americans. Biographical information of each featured speaker and the full texts and complete audio recordings of the speeches are available.

  • Say Their Names--No More Names. Exhibit @ Stanford University Libraries. (See below)

  • The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (The New York Public Library)
  • Seizing Freedom (Prof. Kidada E. Williams, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)
    The website featuring podcast conversations and interviews conducted by historian Kidada Williams on "Black liberation, progress, and joy", all with contemporary relevance.
  • "The Shape of Blackness" Virtual Exhibition (Oakstop, Oakland, California) Supported by The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity.
    [Launched in January 2021] "...a virtual art exhibition and related programming that highlights expressions of contemporary Blackness as envisioned by South African and U.S. artists. In choosing these two nations, we seek perspectives from the global north and south, Black majority and Black minority nations."
  • Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network (MATRIX, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
    "...an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves. Phase one...Users of the website can access data about slaves in colonial Louisiana and Maranhão, Brazil...Phase two...we invite researchers of slavery in the Atlantic World to contribute new databases..."
  • Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (Prof. Vincent Brown, History Design Studio, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
    "This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence."
    --See especially: Map and Sources
  • Slave Societies Digital Archive (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)
    "...dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World [especially: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Spanish Florida, Ouidah (Benin), and Luanda (Angola) ] . The SSDA’s largest and oldest collections were generated by the Catholic Church, which mandated the baptism of African slaves in the fifteenth century and later extended this requirement to the Iberian New World. The baptismal records preserved in Slave Societies are the oldest and most uniform serial data available for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and offer the most extensive information regarding their ethnic origins...other religious documentation such as confirmations, petitions to wed, wills, and even annulments."
  • Slave Voyages -- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Rice University, Houston, Texas; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
    The site provides free access to selected data on thousands of slave ship voyages; plus scholarly essays, illustrations, animated features, and maps. The latest version (2020) includes the "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database" ; "Intra-American Slave Trade Database" ; "African Names Database" ; and, "Image Galleries".  "[The database] is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade..."
  • Slavery and Remembrance: A Guide to Sites, Museums, and Memory (Williamsburg, Virginia)
    "Slavery and Remembrance is a jointly sponsored initiative between UNESCO’s Slave Route Project and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation that engages the public as well as experts with issues relating to slavery, slave trade, and ways in which both are remembered today throughout the Atlantic world."
  • Slavery and Slave Trade History from UNESCO See UNESCO below.
  • Slavery Archive: The #Slaveryarchive Book Club (USA)
    Since 2020, with meetings held over Zoom..."The #Slaveryarchive book club is an online initiative put together by scholars Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University), Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Vanessa Holden (University of Kentucky), and Alex Gil (Columbia University) to discuss newly published books on slavery and the Afro-Atlantic world." 
  • Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora (Virginia Humanities and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; University of Colorado at Boulder, Office of Research Computing and Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship)
    An online library of 1,280 images "...envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by...anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World."
  • Remember Slavery Programme of the United Nations. See United Nations below.
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 The Library of Congress. (Washington, DC)
    "[The collection] contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA)."
    --See especially: 603 digitized items selected from the collection held by The Library of Congress.

  • "Slavery's descendants: the ancestral ties to slaveholding of today's political elite." (2023). By Tom Bergin ...[et al.]. A Reuters Series. (Reuters News Agency, Thomson Reuters, Toronto, Canada)
    "At a time of renewed debate over slavery and its legacy, many of today’s U.S. leaders have staked key positions on policies related to race. Reuters sought to determine how many of those political elites descend from slaveholders, and what it means for them to learn – in personal, specific and sometimes graphic ways – the facts behind their own family’s part in slavery."

  • Smithsonian Institution -- Museums (Washington, DC)
  • SNCC Digital Gateway (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
    Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work: "...a collaborative project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project, Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, and Duke University Libraries. This documentary website tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation."
  • Society of Black Archaeologists (Santa Monica, California, USA)
    [Founded in 2011] "The Society centers the histories and material cultures of global Black and African communities in archaeological research. By providing a strong network, mentorship, and educational access, the SBA works to resolve the ongoing systemic exclusion of Black and African scholars and communities from the field of archaeology."
  • Somali Bantu Association of America (San Diego, California)
  • The Somali Bantu: their history and culture (2003) by Dan Van Lehman and Omar Eno.-- Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2003. 40 pages in PDF format; via Hartford Public Library, Connecticut.
  • The Somali Community in the Port of London Port Cities, UK: London (London, UK)  --via The Internet Archive
    A very brief, popular introduction to the history of Somalia and of Somalis in London, with a few illustrations and photos.
  • South Side Community Art Center--Collections (Chicago, Illinois)
    "Founded in 1940, SSCAC is the oldest African American art center in the United States and is a Chicago Historic Landmark. While taking pride in our rich past, we today build on our legacy and innovatively serve as an artist- and community-centered resource with programs, exhibitions and events that inspire."
    --See also: History & Archives
  • Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, Alabama)
    "Civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. founded the SPLC in 1971 to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all...Our Intelligence Project is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups and other domestic extremists. Our Teaching Tolerance program produces and distributes – free of charge – anti-bias documentary films, books, lesson plans and other materials that reduce prejudice and promote educational equity in our nation’s schools."
    --See especially: SPLC Publications
    --Teaching Hard History: American Slavery. (2018) -- Montgomery, Alabama: SPLC, 2018. Report ; 52 pages in PDF format
    --See also, Learning for Justice, a website for teachers: Teaching Hard History: American Slavery.  
  • South Sudan Women's Empowerment Network (Phoenix, Arizona)
    A Sudanese diaspora NGO organized "...to empower Sudanese women through programs that support and encourage women's rights, education, policy advocacy, and organizational development." The site includes information about the South Sudan Referendum Act of 2009 and their referendum awareness campaign.
  • Stanford University Libraries: Say Their Names -- No More Names: Green Library Exhibit Supporting Black Lives Matter Movement (Stanford, California)
    A digital exhibit, based on a physical one presented in 2020-2021. [The exhibit] "highlights victims who were chosen because they represent a variety of Black Americans whose freedoms were denied or whose lives were callously taken by vile attacks that have terrorized the Black community for centuries." The website features highlights from the Green Library Exhibit, plus a list of 330 Names, and 65 stories/biographies.
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)
    The website for this premier art museum featuring information about current and past exhibitions of works by contemporary artists of African descent.
  • Sudan Knowledge (London and Brighton, UK)
    "...a global forum that brings together experts from across the world to discuss issues relating to sustainable development, science and technology management in Sudan..."
    --See especially: SK Library of journal articles and book chapters

  • Surprising Europe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) --via YouTube.com
    • A television program produced by Al Jazeera in 2011. "Surprising Europe consists of a documentary and a nine part television series. Surprising Europe.com is a community of people who are interested in African-European migration issues."
      --See also: Al-Jazeera.com "About the Show"
  • The Swahili Community and maritime London Port Cities, UK: London (London, UK) --via The Internet Archive
    A very brief, popular introduction to the history of Swahili-speaking peoples in East Africa and in London, with a few illustrations and photos.

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  • Vanderbilt University: Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection--"La Voz de los Abuelos" (Nashville, Tennessee)
    The collection includes transcripts of over 400 oral histories from Colombia and some audio recordings. "Zapata Olivella, noted Afro-Colombian novelist, anthropologist, folklorist, physician and playwright was known throughout Latin America as the “Dean of Black Hispanic Writers.” [The collection provides] a unique window on the history and society of Colombia and on people of African descent in the Americas as a whole."

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  • Yale University -- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven, Connecticut)
    • "[The] Center is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. It seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world by promoting interaction and exchange between scholars ... by assisting in the translation of scholarly information into public knowledge through publications, educational outreach and other programs and events."
    • Conferences
    • Online documents: over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles.
  • Young Historians Project: "We Are Our Own Liberators": The Black Liberation Front 1971-1993, A 2017 Documentary Film (YHP, London, UK)
    About 38 minutes in length, via Vimeo.com: "The project was developed to raise awareness of the history of black political activism in the UK by focusing on the historical contribution of the BLF. By creating learning resources and engaging with young people." The BLF project also included a physical exhibtion.
    --See also: Young Historians Project "African Women and the British Health Service, 1930-2000"

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  • Zimbabwean-American: Munyori Literary Journal (Emmanuel Sigauke and others, Sacramento, California)
    Since 2013 : "Munyori Literary Journal is a Zimbabwean-American literary platform --in English, with a section in Shona about Shona literature-- that features works from global writers and artists... the journal now receives the bulk of its submissions from Zimbabwe and the United States, but we have also featured works from other countries, Nigeria, India, China, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Ghana, Canada, and others."

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Selected Online News Sites of the African Diaspora

  • Africa in Harlem. (Isseu Diouf Campbell ...[et al.], New York)
    "Africa in Harlem, formerly Afrikanspot, is a multilingual community news site documenting and celebrating the African immigrant and African Diaspora's culture, experience, and contribution in Harlem & beyond."
    --See also: French version
  • The Afro. The Afro-American Newspaper. (Baltimore, Maryland)
    A compilation of links to news and short historical and culture summaries in African American studies, a "kids zone", and related information. This website is part of the legacy of The Afro-American Newspaper founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr., in Baltimore.
  • AfrobeatRadio (WBAI.org, New York)
    The reference page on a program with news from Africa, associated with WBAI 99.5 FM radio station. "...a community-based news program providing unique perspectives and access points to reflect, present and celebrate the diversity of African life in communities throughout New York Tri-State (New York, New Jersey York and Connecticut) while providing a platform to celebrate and link the African continent and its global Diaspora."
    --Search also: WBAI Archives for "Afrobeat Radio"
  • AfroCubaWeb: News (Arlington, Massachusetts)
  • Amjambo Africa! (Portland, Maine)
  • Antigua Observer. (Online) -- Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda.
  • The Atlanta Voice. (Online) -- Atlanta, Georgia.
  • AyiboPost (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
  • The Barbados Advocate. (Online) -- St. Michael, Barbados.
  • Barbados today. (St. Michael, Barbados)
  • Basic Black -- A WGBH Program (Boston, Massachusetts)
    The web page offers a video archive from recent programs aired on the Boston public television channel WGBH, a selection of podcasts, and notes on past and upcoming interviews and discussions. This program supersedes a much earlier WGBH television program on African American concerns called Say Brother which first aired in 1968.
  • Black Agenda Report : news, analysis and commentary from the black left. (USA)
    "In the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report."
  • Black America. (CUNY TV, The City University of New York, New York)
    The web site features selected videorecordings of previously aired programs in the series --since 2016-- produced on a local public television station. "...an in-depth conversation that explores what it means to be Black in America. The show profiles Black activists, academics, business leaders, sports figures, elected officials, artists and writers to gauge this experience in a time of both turbulence and breakthroughs...hosted by Carol Jenkins, Emmy award winning New York City journalist, and founding president of The Women's Media Center."
  • Black America Web -- News (Reach Media, California)
  • The Black Commentator. (Online) -- Washington, DC: The Commentator, 2002--
    Subscription required to access this forum for African American political commentary and satire on American and world affairs. The archive contains back issues since April 2002.
  • Black Enterprise. (Online) -- New York: Black Enterprise.
  • BlackPressUSA.Com (Baltimore, Maryland)
    A project of The Black Press Institute--a partnership between the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation (NNPAF) and Howard University: This website offers current and recent US news (since 2004)featuring articles by African American journalists and from "Black community publications".
  • Black Star News. (Online) -- New York: Black Star News, 1997-
    The online version of the weekly newspaper covering news on the United States, Africa, and the world; with an archive of back issue articles since April 2007.
  • Black Voice News. blackvoicenews.com  --Riverside, California: Brown Publishing Company, 2004-
    The online version of a weekly newspaper published since 1972 in California, featuring news and opinion articles. The site includes a "content archive" with selected articles since 2004.
  • The Black Wall Street Times. -- Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since 2016.
  • Boston Review: "Race" -and- Law & Justice (Boston, Massachusetts)
    Boston Review is "...a political and literary forum—a public space for robust discussion of ideas and culture. Independent and nonprofit, animated by hope and committed to equality, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world."
    -- See also: Boston Review on Africa
  • CARICOM today (Georgetown, Guyana)
    A current news website for the Caribbean Community, with a searchable archive of news reports since 2015.
  • The Charlotte Post. (Online) -- Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • The Chicago Defender. (Online) -- Chicago, Illinois.
  • The Conversation: African Americans (Waltham, Massachusetts)
  • The Chronicle. (Online) -- Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
  • The Daily Express. Trinidad Express.  (Caribbean Caribbean Network, Port of Spain, Trinidad) --Includes The Sunday Express
  • The Florida Star and The Georgia Star. (Online)  -- Jacksonville, Florida.
  • The Gleaner. (Online) -- Kingston, Jamaica.
  • Ghanaian American journal. (Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA) Since 2015
  • TheGrio. (Entertainment Studios LLC, USA)
  • Grioo.com--Archives (2023) (Paris, France)
    Ce site était un portail d'informations sur le monde noir depuis 2002. << GRIOO pour le griot africain dépositaire des traditions et de l'histoire en phase avec la modernité ... Les associés du portail d'informations GRIOO sont mus par la volonté de participer à la promotion de la culture noire et africaine grâce leur savoir-faire acquis et exercé dans diverses associations et entreprises >>.
  • The Guyana Chronicle. (Online) -- Georgetown, Guyana: National Newspapers Guyuana Ltd., 2009-
  • The Haitian times. -- New York: HaitiNex Media Group, 2012- Originally founded in 1999.
  • Hammer & hope: a magazine of Black politics and culture. – United States: s.n., 2023-
    "It is a project rooted in the power of solidarity, the spirit of struggle, and the generative power of debate, all of which are vital parts of our movement toward freedom"
  • Intersectionality Matters!: African American Policy Forum. Apple Podcasts (New York)
    Since January 2020, a podcast series hosted by Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and leading scholar of critical race theory.
  • The Jackson Advocate. (Online) -- Jackson, Mississippi.
  • KBLA Talk 1580 (Los Angeles, California) Smiley Audio Media
  • Loop News. (Trend Media Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica)
  • The Los Angeles Sentinel. (Online)  -- Los Angeles, California.
  • The Miami Times (Online) -- Miami, Florida.
  • The Michigan Chronicle. (Online) -- Detroit, Michigan.
  • The New Pittsburgh Courier. (Online) -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • The New York Amsterdam News. (Online)  -- New York.
  • The New York Carib News. (Online) -- New York.
  • NorthStar News.  --Toms River, New Jersey.
  • Now Grenada. (St. George's, Grenada)
  • OkayAfrica (New York)
    "A digital media platform" featuring current and recent news on the latest trends in African music, art, film, and politics, as well as interviews and reports on African artists in the USA and elsewhere in the diaspora.
  • The Philadelphia Tribune. (Online)  -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • The Root. (The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC)
    "...a daily online magazine that provides thought-provoking commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives."
  • Sahan journal. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
    "[Since 2019]...a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota."
  • The Skanner News. (Online) -- Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington.
  • Tadias magazine. (Online) -- New York: Tadias, Inc., 2003-
    An Ethiopian-American online magazine which includes recent political and cultural news, as well as contributions from scholars and journalists on a variety of contemporary and historical topics, including Ethiopian-American and Ethiopian artists, musicians, religious, and political figures. Excerpts are also available from the archives.
  • The Times of Suriname. (Online) English news -- Paramaribo, Suriname.  --See also: Dutch version
  • Today with Dr. Kaye -- Podcasts. Hosted by Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead, Ph.D. WEAA 88.9FM Public Radio. (Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland)
  • Toronto Caribbean. (Online) -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Touki Montréal : l'actualité africaine à Montréal (Canada)
    "Un magazine électronique depuis avril 2009...notre mission est donc de vous faire voyager à travers le cinéma, la littérature, la musique africaine et bien d’autres choses."
  • Trinidad & Tobago Guardian. (Online) -- Port of Spain: Guardian Media Ltd. 
  • The Washington Informer. (Online) -- Washington, DC: Washington Informer Newspaper Co. Inc.
  • The Washington Post: Race and Reckoning. --Washington, DC: The Washington Post Company.
  • The West Indian. (Online) -- New York: The West Indian.

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