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"10 Million Names is a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America (specifically, the territory that would become the United States) between the 1500s and 1865."

***This is part of a series on "Old World, Young Africa" (2023-2024). The article features stories on: Ruth E. Carter; Mr. Eazi; Zhong Feifei; Omar Victor Diop; Nnedi Okorafor; Adamma and Adanne Ebo; Mory Sacko; Grace Wales Bonner; Lesley Lokko; Toheeb Jimoh; and, Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg.

The web site is an archive of the activities and publications of lifelong scholar-activist Gerald A. McWorter, who is Professor Emeritus, Department of African American Studies and School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
-- See especially: African American Studies 2013: A National Web-Based Survey. -- Urbana, IL: Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2013. 36 pages in PDF format
-- Towards Black Liberation: Dispatches from the Black Left Unity Network (BLUN). (2015) Edited by Saladin Muhammad and Abdul Alkalimat. 106 pages in PDF format

-- FESTAC: The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture: A Partial Documentation.  This website is a digital collection of official documents handed to participants, some of the papers presented, video documentaries, and articles written about FESTAC 1977, Lagos, Nigeria.

"Depuis 1989, le Groupe de recherche Achac travaille sur plusieurs champs liés à la question coloniale et postcoloniale (idéologies politiques de la colonisation, développement des cultures coloniales et postcoloniales ; zoos humains et spectacles ethniques, représentations de l’altérité ; histoire militaire et troupes coloniales), mais aussi à l’histoire des immigrations des suds à travers différents programmes."

"Founded in 2009, a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing." A global African politics and contemporary popular culture blog with South African roots, initiated by an International Affairs professor at The New School University in New York.
--See especially: Diaspora -and- AIAC Talk, a weekly discussion, via YouTube.com

The site features information about exhibits, events, support for descendants and other researchers, educational programs, video clips, and related links. "In January 1999, the Civil War Memorial Museum opened to the public. Using photographs, documents and state of the art audio visual equipment, the museum helps visitors understand the African American's heroic and largely unknown struggle for freedom."

"Founded in 1997, by Troy Johnson, AALBC.com is a widely recognized source of author profiles, book recommendations, active discussion boards, writer resources, informative articles, videos, and book reviews."
--See especially: author profiles ; list of Black-owned bookstores in the United States ; and, book reviews

"Founded in 1976 in celebration of the nation's Bicentennial, the AAMP is the first institution funded and built by a major municipality to preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans."
--See especially: Exhibitions ; Collections & Database

'...an innovative think tank, founded in 1996, to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public debates on questions of inequality, discrimination, and injustice.'
--See especially: AAPF Publications

--Under the Blacklight: "Is This the Last Black History Month?" February 28, 2022. Panel discussion with Sherrilyn Ifill, Jelani Cobb, Cornel West, and Kimberlé Crenshaw. --via YouTube.com
--See also: Intersectionality Matters!: podcasts hosed by Kimberlé Crenshaw (See below)

"[Since January 2012]...a forum for exciting, informed and vigorous debate and comment on the issues engaging the African Diaspora in the United Kingdom and beyond."

The website for the memorial, events, and news relating to the archaeological studies under the direction of scholars based at Howard University in Washington, DC. "In 1991, during the construction of a Federal office building at 290 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, excavators unearthed the largest colonial-era cemetery for enslaved Africans in America. ...The remains were given a permanent resting-place at the African Burial Ground Memorial Site on October 4, 2003."
-- History & Culture--Reports
-- See also: The Schomburg Center on Research in Black Culture--Lapidus Center on "The African Burial Ground" (2004): general information, maps, slide shows, and video clips of events, etc.

"The ADAN provides this web portal as a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of descendants of African peoples.
-- African diaspora archaeology newsletter. (Online) -- Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 2005-
Supercedes: African American archaeology newsletter. (Online) 1994-2000.

***Warning: this blog is offline since September 16, 2024.  A blog launched in 2008 on trends in African diaspora studies, with information and web links on conferences, interviews, and publications.

"...ADPC enables African Diaspora in Europe to connect more closely with the continent as a collective force. The thematic areas are Peacebuilding, Research, Expert Meetings, Training, Better Governance, Migration & Development, and Brain Gain."
--See epecially: ADPC publications: articles, policy briefs and papers, reports, book summaries, etc.

A web portal for the African diaspora in the United Kingdom, with news and information on opportunities in education and investment.

The website includes contact information on services for African immigrants, current events of interest, and related web links. "Established in 1981, African Services Committee is a community-based organization in New York City dedicated to improving the health and self-sufficiency of the African community."

"CIDO is responsible for implementing the African Union’s vision of a people-oriented and driven organization based on a partnership between governments, civil society and diasporas. The directorate consists of the civil society and diaspora divisions."

The site features excerpts from the "narratives" of each of the four parts of this television series, suggestions for teachers, maps and illustrations, an extensive archive of excerpts from "historical documents", a list of "general resources" (books, films, etc.), and a brief historiographical essay by Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University on "Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War".

"Established in 2009, African Writers Trust is a non-profit body, which coordinates and brings together African writers in the Diaspora and their counterparts on the continent to promote mutual sharing of skills and other resources, and to foster knowledge and learning between the two groups."

[Formerly Journal of pan-African studies, 1987-2010] "A:JPAS is a transdisciplinary scholarly journal devoted to an Africological synthesis of African world community studies and research since 1987." This site offers the current online issue and back issues since 1987.

"...a nonprofit organization that bridges Continental Africa and the African Diaspora through partnerships and cultural connections."
--See especially: "AfriKin Art Fair: The Fire Next Time," December 2021--November 2022

An extensive list of links to Francophone sites on Africa and the African Diaspora.

A collection of articles in English and French on the issues surrounding Martin Bernal's multi-volume work-in-progress, "Black Athena".

An extensive list (in English) of links to information about cultural events, authors, and other news from various Afro-Cuban communities.

An English language blog magazine which featured cultural and political news commentary; plus, links to many other sites addressing issues of concern for people of African descent in the UK and Europe.

"The purpose of this project is the comparative study of the theory, literature and arts produced by Afroeuropeans in the last decades, with the aim of exploring both the cultural specificies and the internal diversity of black communities in Europe..."

--7th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference, July 4-6, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, including: Final program

"...a dynamic organization of individual scholars working in the field of African American Studies. It is the “American” section of the International African American Research Association."
--PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association, 1997 to present

An online database--downloadable--to search for African heritage in Louisiana. "The Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy online search engine was designed to provide the general public free access to valuable historic records. Users can locate individual slaves who lived in Louisiana between the years of 1718 and 1820 through this easy-to-use, free, public database. Find valuable historical data from over 100,000 descriptions of slaves found in documents in Louisiana between 1718 and 1821 by searching identifiers such as gender, racial designation, or plantation location. Users can even search the origin of the slaves brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries to work the New World."

Month-long event programming around topics on African and African diaspora expressions in music and the arts.
--See also: The Black Atlantic Revisited (July 2019)

This website is a community driven platform to digitize original materials and oral histories; includes a 28 minute video, a digital archive of two African American Muslim newspapers from the 1970s--Al-Islam and Western Sunrise; a small group of filmed oral histories; and related documents. "Between 2013-2018, the After Malcolm Digital Archive was housed at Georgia State University library’s Department of Special Collections...in 2018, the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University offered to house the collection as a stand alone website and provide support for the continuation of its original mission."

A video archive of a television program from Detroit, Michigan. "American Black Journal, originally titled Colored People's Time, went on the air in 1968 as a televised public forum for black Americans during a historic moment of racial turmoil across the nation... The show represents a unique national treasury, possessing one of the most extensive audio-visual records of local African-American history and culture in existence, recorded in the city with the third largest black population in the United States."
--See also: American Black Journal (Current web site) --via One Detroit, Detroit Public Televsision (DPTV)

A website about the "Freedom Schooner Amistad" (a replica boat of the original) and links related to the Amistad slave ship, the events surrounding the 1839 slave revolt on the ship, and the trial.

The site features online finding aids and access to the Indiana University library catalog; plus related publications and news. "Established in 1991, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era."
--See also: Black grooves: a music review site hosted by the AAAMC.

"Archives For Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) is a loose association of archivists, librarians, and allied professionals in the area responding to the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement."

"ACRAH offers a forum for such committed considerations of race in relationship to art and visual culture."
--See especially: Bibliographies on African Diaspora/African American Art History, Culture, Race, and Theory -and- The Caribbean

"In the late 1960s, Dr. Margaret Burroughs, founder of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, and Dr. Charles H. Wright, of the Museum of African American History in Detroit, initiated a series of conferences for Black museums. ...Then, in Detroit in February of 1978, the new organization adopted the name 'African American Museums Association' (AAMA), and elected its first governing council. AAMA’s first office was at the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists in Boston, Massachusetts...In the 2000s and beyond, the Association has focused on identifying the composition and needs of its constituents and the larger African American museum community..."
--AAAM 2023 Conference--CFP, July 26-28, 2023, Nashville, TN
--See also: Past AAAM Conferences

Ce site offre un recueil des interventions du colloque de l'ADEN et des rapports sur les activités de l'association. Fondée en septembre 2001 par Marcel Rosette (1926-2006) ancien sénateur-maire, descendant d'esclave, elle fut successivement présidée par Serge Hermine, professeur d'Université, membre du << Comité pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage >>, Jean Metellus, professeur de Médecine, écrivain, et Daniel Voguet, avocat à la Cour de Paris, militant des droits de l'Homme. ADEN entend d'abord concourir au devoir de mémoire. Elle plaide notamment depuis sa création pour que les programmes scolaires et les programmes de recherche en Histoire et en Sciences humaines accordent à la traite négrière, à l'esclavage et au colonialisme la place conséquente qu'ils méritent. ADEN demande la création d'un << centre national d'histoire de la traite négrière et de l'esclavage >>.

The web site of the organization originally founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1915. General information about the ASALH's activities and leading members; and about Woodson's contributions.

--108th Annual Meeting and Conference of the ASALH--"Black Resistance," September 20-24, 2023, Jacksonville, Florida
--Former Conferences

"The ABA was founded in 1970...to bring together Black Anthropologists and other scholars...by ensuring that people studied by anthropologists are not only objects of study but active makers and/or participants in their own history. We intend to highlight situations of exploitation, oppression and discrimination....to analyze and critique social science theories that misrepresent the reality of exploited groups while at the same time construct more adequate theories to interpret the dynamics of oppression."
--See also: "ABA: a brief history," by Ira E. Harrison. (1987) Anthropology today Vol 31, no. 1 (Feb. 1987).

Founded in 1968: "Guided by the principle of self determination, these psychologists set about building an institution through which they could address the long neglected needs of Black professionals. Their goal was to have a positive impact upon the mental health of the national Black community by means of planning, programs, services, training, and advocacy."

The website includes information about activities, a newsletter, short bibliographies of publications by black women scholars, and web links. "ABWH was founded in 1979. Its membership consists of scholars, academics, graduate students and laypersons who share an interest in Diaspora Women's Studies. Members engage in research about women of African descent all over the world."

This site offers general information about ANPA, its annual conferences, and related events and activities.

Data sets and related information from Prof. Manning's research on the transatlantic slave trade.

"This virtual online library project is sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, in association with the Moorland Spingarn Research Center--Manuscript Division at Howard University and the University of Texas Libraries.The web site features biographical information, selected documents, photographs, information for teachers, current news and webcasts, and related links.
--See especially: CRS Report for Congress: African American Members of the United States Congress: 1870-2008. (July 23, 2008) by Mildred L. Amer. -- Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2008. 67 pages in PDF format

"[Founded in April 2006]...BAJI educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice."
--See especially: The State of Black Immigrants (2016)
--Deferred Enforced Departure Fact Sheet--Liberia (2018)
--All BAJI reports

--See also: Immigrants below

--See also, Columbia University's Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies ; Institute for Research in African American Studies ; plus: The Institute of African Studies -and- Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies

"...a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times."

"The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, part of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is a cultural and educational research center that promotes a comprehensive understanding for the significance of civil rights developments in Birmingham."
--See especially: BCRI Oral History Collection -and- Resource Gallery

"The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period."

Updated quarterly: "Citations date back to the nineteenth century to the present, with the majority of references representing the very influential contemporary black feminist thought that emerged in the the 1970s and continues today. The bibliography is primarily arranged by discipline and subject. There are 4 broad discipline based section headings: Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences; Education; Health, Medicine and Science; and 6 sections related to format: (Auto)biographies, Memoirs, and Personal Narratives; Interviews; Speeches; Multidisciplinary Anthologies; Periodicals: Special Issues; and Web Sites."

"B.A.S.A. was formed in 1991. The aim ...is to foster research and to disseminate information on the history of Black peoples in Britain. We publish a newsletter three times a year, and hold annual conferences. We take up issues with government departments and societies, school curricula, archives, libraries and museums..."

General information about the center, its director, and related links. "Founded in 1989, the Black Arts Research Center is an archival resource center dedicated to the documentation, preservation and dissemination of the African cultural legacy. Resources include some 2300 recordings, cassettes and videotapes, 1300 books and journals, 500 clippings files and a bibliographic database with more than 50,000 entries. These materials now offer one of the richest resources ever on the Black presence in the performing arts."

"The photographs in this collection covers two decades, from the 1960s to the 1970s, giving a unique insight to the lives and experiences of first generation, African Caribbean leaders who settled in UK and influenced the community in Lambeth, and the surrounding boroughs.
--See also: "Photographing Black Britain" at the Museum of London, UK

"Founded in 1970, the BCALA was organized to promote the development of library and information services for African Americans and other people of African descent."

"A reference guide for finding recordings, music, and information on classical music written by black composers."

Founded in 2019, the BCDA brings together scholars, students, museums and archives professionals and the public to collaborate and spread the story of black craftspeople [in the United States]. This collection pulls records from a variety of sources, including newspapers, private papers, wills and estate records, United States Federal Census records, city directories, and more."
--Browse the Collections

[Since 1981] "We use our mission to collect, preserve and celebrate the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK and to inspire and give strength to individuals, communities and society...At our HQ we run a series of gallery exhibitions, educational programmes and public engagement events. We provide free access to our unique set of archives, museum objects and reference library...
The BCA catalog contains over 3,500 records across 41 collections reflecting the history and presence of African and Caribbean communities in Britain. These include personal papers, organisational records, ephemera, photographs and periodicals, library references and the object collections."
--See especially: Collections

"[BESS is] a two-week intensive course held each summer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The course explores the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora and other people of color in Europe. Participants learn about the origins of Black Europe and investigate the impact of colonial legacies on policies, social organizations, and legislation today."

An open access, annotated archive of "black films" currently available on the Internet, primarily via YouTube.com. "Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. We are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1898 to 1989 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context."

An oral history archive with over 300 narrators recorded from across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. "Black doctors and nurses across the African Diaspora are working on the frontline of healthcare during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [During the period 2020-2022...in Birmingham, London, and Leicester; Atlanta, Chicago and New York; Accra and Kumasi] The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice and COVID Black gathered their stories – of struggle, sacrifice, courage, community, devastation, hope, horror, anger, fear and fearlessness."

"...features episodes from the Black Journal series, the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and (eventually) by African-Americans. The series debuted on National Educational Television on June 12, 1968...Following a strike in August 1968 by Black staff members...William Greaves, who became the series’ producer, director, and occasional host. Under Greaves’ direction, the series won an Emmy Award in 1969 for excellence in public affairs programming. In 1971, Tony Brown took over leadership of Black Journal. In 1977, the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal."

"The Teaching for Black Lives campaign provides teachers support, resources, and encouragement to teach young people honestly about systemic racism and how to organize for justice. Through multiple opportunities — classes, study groups, workshops — educators are invited into a national network of teachers, school librarians, counselors, administrators, and school staff who are defying efforts to ban what students can learn in school by vowing to teach for Black lives."
--See also: Rethinking Schools -and- Teaching for Change

"Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education. We encourage all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year."
--See especially: Curriculum: lesson plans and classroom resources -and- Year of Purpose, 2020-2021

"The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes."
--See also: Black Lives Global Network on Facebook

Created by Frank Leon Roberts in 2015 and revised in 2016, the syllabus and web site offers highlights from a college-level seminar and includes recommended readings and videos. The site also includes information about Prof. Roberts BLMS 'teach tour" in the United States & Canada, 2017-2019.  The seminar topics focus on: (1) the rise of the U.S. prison industrial complex and its relationship to the increasing militarization of inner city communities; (2) the role of the media industry in influencing national conversations about race and racism; (3) the state of racial justice activism in the context of a neoliberal Obama Presidency; and (4) the increasingly populist nature of decentralized protest movements in the contemporary United States."

"Since 2013...Our pioneering work, unearthing and bringing to light the under-represented oral histories, narratives, memories and creative representations of former coal miners of Black/ African-Caribbean heritage and other diverse groups within UK mining history as part of the global story of workforce labour and industry..."

This site offers information about the Center's programs and activities.
--See especially: Resources for researchers and teachers, including bibliographies and a discography of music by black composers.

'A free and ungated reference center on African American History and Global African History with over 3,000 pages' which include: an online encyclopedia; full texts of speeches by famous African Americans; primary documents--such as court documents, government reports, and organizational statements; "Perspectives on African American History" and gateways to web sites of museums, digital text collections, and research centers.

--See also: "Using Blackpast.org in the Classroom"

A blog dedicated to issues facing Africans and African diaspora peoples in Britain and the rest of the world, opinions pieces, reports on projects and events, and related links.

"Drawing on an archive of digitized African-American newspapers, Matthew F. Delmont guides readers through a wealth of primary resources that reveal how the Black press popularized African-American history and valued the lives of both famous and ordinary Black people...Framed by introductory chapters on the history of Black newspapers, a trove of short posts on individual newspaper stories brings the rich archive of African-American newspapers to life, giving readers access to a variety of media objects, including videos, photographs, and music."

"BWRD historizes and visualizes Black women’s radical political activism in Africa and in the African Diaspora...[Since 2019] Black Women Radicals is a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people’s radical political activism."
--See also: BWR Blog

"...a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials [over 5,000 items]  documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960."
See especially:  Key Figures...in Black women's activism ...and the collections on: Ida B. Wells-Barnett ; Charlotta Bass ; and, Mary Church Terrell.

"...starting out as 'The Boston Support Group for TransAfrica,' in the late 1970s, to the formal transformation to the BPAF in 1997...in order to promote a widespread appreciation of current social, economic, political and other issues affecting relations between Americans and peoples of African descent around the world. It seeks to mobilize all sectors of the American society especially regarding U.S. foreign policy and international relations."

A very brief introduction to the history of the slave trade and the African diaspora communities of Bristol and Liverpool; each section with illustrations, photos, information about local museums, and short bibliography.
--See also: Somali and Swahili Communities of London below.

The official website for the television series on the BBC in the United Kingdom which first aired in 2016. 

--See also: Black and British...exploring what it means to be black in Britain today

"...dedicated to uncovering the cultural, political, economic, and religious histories of the more than 500,000 people of African descent in the Bronx: creating a database from oral history transcripts and audio tapesfor use by scholars, students, teachers, public historians, andmuseum curators; producing scholarly publications and teaching tools; encouraging, promoting, and building partnerships; identifying, preserving, cataloging, and making accessible to the public archival record collections."
--See especially: White Paper on African immigration to The Bronx (August 2010) by Dr. Jane Kani Edward. 64 pages in PDF format

"... is a multifaceted public history initiative that explores the everyday heroes of Brooklyn’s anti-slavery movement. This public history project is a partnership of Brooklyn Historical Society, Weeksville Heritage Center and Irondale Ensemble Project."

Last update: November 2020. "[A multi-media, digital humanities project]...Black Belt Brooklyn aims to illustrate and historicize Black practices of vitality, mutual-aid, and institution building during a period of widespread neglect by formal political institutions at every level. Using Black spatial production (or an emplaced 'making a way out of no way') Black residents produce place counter to official geographies and understandings of urban space that draws from practices of Black resistance, community organizing, and institution building."

"In 2003, Brown University President Ruth Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The committee, which included faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students, and administrators, was charged to investigate and to prepare a report about the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade...The Committee presented its final report to President Simmons in October 2006. On February 24, 2007, the Brown Corporation endorsed a set of initiatives in response to the Committee’s report."

This commercial site features background information on the films available for purchase or rental.

"...a project of the non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, WeTheProtesters. Funds donated to Campaign Zero support the analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide." 

--See also: Mapping Police Violence (below)

"dLOC is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections...newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts."

"[The Commission]...is a regional body created to Establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of Reparations by the Governments of all the former colonial powers and the relevant institutions of those countries, to the nations and people of the Caribbean Community for the Crimes against Humanity of Native Genocide, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and a racialized system of chattel Slavery."
--See especially: 10-Point Action Plan

"...dedicated to promoting and promulgating the cultures of people of African Descent brought before and after the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through concerts, gallery tours, workshops, performances, conferences, professional development sessions, spiritual gatherings, and teaching artists residencies, we support teachers, and students across New York to learn and grow through the arts."

"This collaborative curation of digital resources concerning the Caribbean and its diasporas engages the community in compiling entries in an open, shared online dataset...On this website you can browse or search an open-source bibliography of digital resources resulting from—and meant for—the study of the Caribbean."

A rich site for news about Islam in the region, articles on history and culture since 2007.

"...founded on June 14, 2003 at the Centre for Caribbean Thought at The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica...[The CPA] is an organization of scholars and lay-intellectuals dedicated to the study and generation of ideas with a particular emphasis of encouraging South-South dialogue."

--CPA 2023: "Twenty Years of Shifting the Geography of Reason: Continuing the Struggle," June 22-24, 2023 -- Online

Created by Unpayable Debt: Capital, Violence, and the New Global Economy: a comprehensive bibliography of sources on the debt problem in the Caribbean. This second edition contains translations of key syllabus sections to other important languages in the Caribbean, including Spanish, French, and Dutch

The web site of this international, refereed literary journal, with tables of contents, selected excerpts of poetry, essays, & interviews, an index to back issues (1987-2009), news, and subscription information.

"...an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans, through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action."

"At the core of the project is a database containing, first, the identity of all slave-owners in the British colonies at the time slavery ended and, second, all the estates in the British Caribbean colonies. As the two earlier phases of work unfolded, we amassed, analysed and incorporated information about the activities, affiliations and legacies of all the British slave-owners on the database, building this Encyclopedia of British Slave-Owners."

"Home to the Blanche Coggin Underground Railroad Collection, the Harriet Tubman Museum Collection, and the Sheffield Collection—a repository of documents regarding the labor movement in Detroit—among many other notable materials, The Wright houses more than 35,000 artifacts pertaining to the African American experience."
--See especially: Exhibitions

"This [document-rich] website is about the Civil Rights Movement of 1951-1968 which we also call the "Freedom Movement" — a period of protests and political struggles thoughout America to win freedom from race-based discrimination, oppression, and exploitation, to end racial segregation, and to win voting rights for all regardless of race. Almost everything on this site was written by a veteran of that Freedom Movement."

The group’s mission: "'Preserve and perpetuate the culture and heritage of the last Africans brought to America … enlighten society about their descendants and African history.' ...Never let the world forget! And now that the scuttled hulk of Clotilda has been found in murky, alligator infested waters around '12 Mile Island' near Mobile, the story of that last ship to ferry enslaved Africans to America is being told in detail through new books, magazine articles, websites, podcasts and soon several documentaries and movies."

--See also: Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation

--Clotilda Exhibtion at the Africatown Heritage House, 2023-2024

--Video: Alabama Public Television presents "Africatown Heritage House" (2023)

"...a financially independent, international organization of scholars of African American and Black Diaspora studies from all over Europe, Canada, China, Japan, the US and several African countries...CAAR organizes bi-annual conferences, sponsors local symposia, helps to create research networks, particularly for younger scholars, and supports publications, most prominently its FORECAAST Series (Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies)."
--See also: CAAR on Facebook

" CADD is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity. Through conferences, roundtables, publications and public events, we facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry..."

Media events; op-ed articles, and press releases from the organization. "We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 1.7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America."

"The Colored Conventions movement brought together Black men and women from across the United States and Canada from 1830 through the 1890s...The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is an interdisciplinary research hub that uses digital tools to bring the buried history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to life...The Colored Conventions Project’s Digital Records website features hundreds of primary sources from the long conventions movement. Primary sources include minutes, proceedings, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, transcripts, and images."

--See especially: Bibliography -and-  Exhibits

"Established in 1983 ...the CBMR holds collections that highlight the role of black music in world culture with materials originating or representing black music in the United States, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean."

"...about Columbia’s historic connections with the institution of slavery...much of the information...derives from student research papers for the seminar, Columbia University and Slavery (HIST 3518), offered each year by a faculty member of the History department."
--See especially: Student Research ; Student Exhibits

--See also: Prof. Eric Foner's Preliminary Report

General information about the programs in African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia; plus an events calendar and publications.
--"1619 and its Legacies: Symposium, Roundtable Discussion, & Poetic Reading," September 26-27, 2019, at Columbia University Faculty House.
--See also: Barnard College's Department of Africana Studies

"...the first major survey of twenty-first century art of the Caribbean. It employs the archipelago as an analytical framework, focusing on locating thematic continuities in the art of the Caribbean islands, placing Hispanophone artists in visual conversation with those from Anglophone, Francophone, Dutch, and Danish backgrounds."

"Each year, the Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival brings creators, illustrators, writers, and independent publishers together with thousands of collectors, blerds, and nerds for two days of programming and activities."
--See also: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture below

Ce site --en français ou en anglais-- offre le programme des activités et des extraits du premier numéro de la revue Presence Africaine. "La communauté africaine et l'Institut W.E.B Du Bois pour la recherche africaine et africaine américaine de l'université de Harvard (Etats-Unis) ouvrent, à l'université de la Sorbonne, les célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire du 1er Congrès international des écrivains et artistes noirs qui se déroula le 19 septembre 1956..."

"CMB is a Black member-based collective of community residents and activists serving Black working-class and poor Black communities. CMB emerged out of a need to respond to encroaching gentrification, displacement and over-policing."

"...a sampling of [the efforts of CIC institutions] to engage students and the public through curricular materials, research publications, archives, oral and digital exhibitions, podcasts, and more."
--See also: Virtual Symposium 2022--"Legacies of Slavery: Past, Present & Future," April 5-7, 2022. Co-sponsored by Yale University, Macmillan Center/Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, New Haven, Connecticut.

Le CRAN a été inauguré en France le 26 novembre 2005 pour lutter contre les discriminations ethno-raciales. Le site offre les actualités sur l'organisation, la liste des associations membres, les evènements, etc.

"David Driskell has long been recognized for his vibrant and versatile artistic practice rooted in his reverence of the beauty and spirituality of the American landscape and his profound connection to the African diaspora."

--See also: David Driskett (1931-2020) -- via "African Diaspora Biography on the Internet" (Columbia University Libraries)

Research on Somali, Eritrean, and Ethiopian diasporas. "...a multi-disciplinary research project that seeks to generate evidence-based and policy-relevant knowledge about the ways in which diasporas play into the dynamics of conflict and peace in their countries of origin."

"Ce programme se prolonge avec la longue histoire des présences de populations maghrébines, proche-orientales et ottomanes dans l’Hexagone traversant treize siècles d’histoire de France, et celle des présences afro-antillaises depuis trois siècles d’histoire."

A searchable database of information on artifacts found on former slave plantations and other places where African slaves lived and worked in North America and the Caribbean.
--See also: DAACS Research Consortium

***Remarquez: on ne peut pas accéder au site depuis 2014. "...Karfa Diallo et son association DiversCités se sont donné pour mission de réveiller les consciences des villes s'étant enrichies avec le commerce triangulaire. Non pas forcément pour 'débaptiser les rues de négriers', comme l'indique de façon un peu provocatrice leur campagne, mais 'pour un meilleur respect de la mémoire de ce crime contre l'humanité'"

--Veuillez voir aussi: "DiversCités: commemoration de l’esclavage et création d’une foundation européenne," le 26 avril 2006. [Entretien avec Karfa Diallo, le fondateur] --via Grioo.com

An illustrated directory of open access websites on historic sites, objects, and monuments to the African presence outside of the African continent, especially in Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean.

"The ECDA has two primary related, overarching goals: the first is to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people. [And] we aim to enable users—both scholars of the Caribbean as well as students—to understand the colonial nature of the archive and to use the digital archive as a site of revision and remix for exploring ways to decolonize the archive."

A critical look at "Black Studies" in America and a repository of research on programs.

"’Education contre le racisme passe nécessairement par une prise de conscience : on ne nait pas raciste, on le devient. Il faut diffuser, et surtout enseigner, les connaissances scientifiques fondamentales indispensables pour structurer une pensée humaniste."
--Veuillez voir surtout: "Nous autres: Éducation contre le racisme"

The site includes progress and program reports, anti-racism guides, etc. "Launched in June 2019, the Center for Black Educator Development is revolutionizing education by dramatically increasing the number of Black educators so that low-income Black and other disenfranchised students can reap the full benefits of a quality public education."

"We are building a robust, open-source architecture to discover, connect, and visualize [more than] 600,000 people records and 5 million data points...Explore the data and life stories on Enslaved.org and read articles on data-driven research about the lives of the enslaved in the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation."
--See also: Lapidus Center for the Historical Anaylsis of the Transatlantic Slavery and other resources on "slave biographies", "slavery", "slave trade", etc. below

"EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
--See especially: EJI Reports

"This project on Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) focuses on the movement to abolish the trans-Atlantic slave trade and ultimately to emancipate the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved...This website is divided into different sections that establish the context in which Vassa lived, explore the places where he traveled, and the people whom he knew...Studying Equiano provides access to primary documents, published scholarly analysis and web links relevant to the times and places of Vassa's life."

Le communiqué du comité (du 30 janvier 2006), les membres, le rapport complet (en format PDF), le Prix Mémoire de l'esclavage, et des liens. << Le Chef de l'Etat (en France) a annoncé que la journée des Mémoires de la traite négrière, de l'esclavage et de leurs abolitions sera désormais commémorée chaque 10 mai. >>

A promotional website for the film by Alí Allié about a Garifuna woman's journey home to Honduras.

"ENAR has member organisations in 27 EU Member States, as well as some EEA and Council of Europe States."
--See especially: News & Blog -and- Publications

"This study is Pew Research Center’s most comprehensive, in-depth attempt to explore religion among Black Americans. Its centerpiece is a nationally representative survey of 8,660 Black adults (ages 18 and older), featuring questions designed to examine Black religious experiences. The sample consists of a wide range of adults who identify as Black or African American, including some who identify as both Black and Hispanic or Black and another race (such as Black and White, or Black and Asian)."

"...The F.B. Eyes Digital Archive makes available for the first time a collection of 51 FBI files on prominent African American authors and literary institutions, many of them unearthed through William J. Maxwell's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Now part of the public domain as unrestricted U.S. government documents, these once-secret files are arranged on this site as they were at FBI national headquarters, under the names of individual authors and institutions...The collected files of the authors alone comprise 14,289 pages..."

A crowd-sourced web archive: "Documenting Ferguson is a freely available resource that seeks to preserve and make accessible the digital media captured and created by community members following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014."

"...a été créé en 2005 par la Fondation Fabienne Colas, organisme artistique professionnel, sans but lucratif, voué à l’éducation dans les arts et au soutien à la création, la promotion, la diffusion du Cinéma, de l’Art et de la Culture au Canada et à l’étranger."

--Veuillez voir aussi: Toronto Black Film Festival below

Veuillez voir aussi, les informations sur les éditions plus anciennes.

The site includes digitized (ASCII) primary resource texts, scholarly analysis and commentaries, images, maps, and a bibliography.
"...a research unit of the City University of New York housed at The City College of New York, has announced the publication of ...the first digital bilingual platform devoted to disseminating the history of the early inhabitants of black-African ancestry of today's Dominican Republic, then a Spanish colony named La Española (Hispaniola, in English) that occupied the entire island of the same name, shared today by the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti."

This page features a list of over 32 named collections (Charles Chestnut, Aaron Douglas, W.E.B. DuBois, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Scott Joplin, J.A. Rogers, etc.), with brief descriptions, and information about access for researchers.

A multi-media, community news organization --in Portuguese, Kriolu, and English-- for Cape Verdian Americans and "friends of Cape Verde."

This searchable digital library of 19th century runaway or fugitive slave advertisements from around the United States offers the opportunity to begin to reconstruct the history of the lives of enslaved and self-liberated Black people. The site includes K-12 educators guides and lesson plans.

The "family guide" offers highlights from this exhibition of the work over 100 artists working in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean. There's also a Teacher Resource Packet. "Featured artists range from such well-known figures as Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Kehinde Wiley, and Fred Wilson; to Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu, and Paris-based Togolese/Brazilian designer Kossi Aguessy, who has collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent, Cartier, and Swarovski; to the Gahaya Links Weaving Association, a collaborative of Hutu and Tutsi women working in traditional basketry techniques in Rwanda."

A "news and views" portal on contemporary politics and history, with information for UK citizens on government, voting, educational and job opportunities, etc. "OBV is the first initiative to focus exclusively on the Black democratic deficit in the UK. We believe that without a strong political voice for African, Asian, Caribbean and other ethnic minorities, the ideal of equality of opportunity--regardless of race and colour--will remain an ideal...Our comprehensive programme includes political education, participation and representation..." See especially:
-- Profiles of "Black Politicians" in the UK
-- OBV newsletter. (Online) -- London: OBV, 2007-
-- OBV Links

The official web site for the films of pioneer filmmaker William Greaves.
-- See also: William Greaves Collection, Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University

This site features an archive of messages from a discussion list in the field of African-American studies; plus links to Africa-related lists.

"The nation's largest African American literary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment, and community cooperation." This annual book fair is usually held in the Harlem section of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. The program includes outdoor exhibits, panel discussions, and other events. Since 2020, the fair has been held online!

"The first phase of the initiative’s work was to uncover the truth of Harvard’s ties to slavery through deep research guided by a committee of distinguished faculty drawn from across the University.  [The Report] provides a strong foundation for our next phase: the process of reckoning and repair."
--See especially: Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (April 2022)

"This collection documents the experience of COVID-19 across Black communities in America. Its intention is to create a collective conversation of material for teaching and learning about the contemporary effects of COVID-19 among Black communities as it is tied to the historical legacy of race in America."

"...a collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives...The collection includes photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events...These images present HBCUs as cultural, social, and political institutions from the early 1800s until today."

--See also: HBCU Library Alliance

A selection of interviews and lectures in podcast format and bibliographical references on the key authors and their works in the history of African and African diaspora philosophy.

This website features hundreds of individual and family oral histories of people of African descent in Hull and elsewhere in the UK, with photographs, documents, and related links."The African Stories project fulfils our educational remit to explore the stories of people of African descent in Hull and East Yorkshire from the Wilberforce era of the 1750s until 2007."

This commercial site offers background information on the films available for purchase or rental.

Dossiers sur auteurs, des extraits de textes, et des liens Internet.

"This digital resource surveys the experiences of African Americans [1820-2020] in seeking to acquire land and create communities to achieve economic independence, secure their right to full participation in US society, and express their claim to citizenship."

***Remarquez: ce site n'avait pas été pas en ligne depuis au début de l'an 2023.  [Fondée par la journaliste Rokhaya Diallo]: '"Les Indivisibles sont un groupe de militants dont le but est de déconstruire, notamment grâce à l'humour et l'ironie, les préjugés ethno-raciaux et en premier lieu, celui qui nie ou dévalorise l'identité française des Français non-Blancs."

--Veuillez voir aussi: "Rokhaya Diallo : lutter contre le racisme en France et en Amérique," France-Amérique. le 12 mai 2021.

--En plus: Rokhaya Diallo sur YouTube.com

"The IRR was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to carry out research, publish and collect resources on race relations throughout the world. In 1972, the IRR's membership backed the staff in a radical transformation of the organisation from a policy-oriented, establishment, academic institution into an anti-racist 'thinktank'." The web site features news stories, links to teaching resources and other UK race relations sites, and information about the Institute's research activities and its publications, including the longstanding journal Race and class.

"Our permanent exhibitions feature more than 150 historical objects, more than 30 works of art, nearly 50 films and digital interactive experiences that bring history to life, framed by a gateway to the Atlantic Ocean."
--See especially: Museum -and- Center for Family History
--See also: United States Colored Troops Pensions Project below

"[Opened in August 2007]...It is the only museum of its kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery as well as being an international hub for resources on human rights issues."

"In the Same Boats is a work of multimodal scholarship...The platform comprises two interactive visualizations that trace the movements of significant cultural actors from the Caribbean and wider Americas, Africa, and Europe within the 20th century Afro-Atlantic world..." [Featuring the trajectories of Aimé Césaire, C.L.R. James, Claude McKay, Eslande Goode Robeson, George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, Katherine Dunham, René Depestre, Duse Mohamed Ali, and W.E.B. Du Bois]

An electronic journal on African migration and immigration --- past, contemporary, and future -- around the continent and from the continent to other lands; with institutional support from Brooklyn College, The City University of New York.

The site includes disturbing images of caricatures, historical summaries on 'Jim Crow', and related links. Among the stated objectives of this website: 'to serve as a teaching resource, to help scholars and Michigan residents to understand the historical role of racism in American culture, to promote racial tolerance.'

Online since 2002:  "...the news column on diversity issues in the news media...From 2002 to 2016, the 'Journal-isms' column originated on the website of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; also appeared on TheRoot.com from 2010 to June 2018."
--See especially: Articles -and- Archives

"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

***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."

A compilation of Internet resources on African peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.

"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

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

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."

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.

"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...and the 2013 edition of a 164-page online book, which is a who's who of African American librarians in US history.

"...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..."

"[Since 2013] ...LDHI projects are developed through a collaborative network of academic scholars, librarians, archivists, public historians, and students."
--See LDHI Exhibitions

"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

"Mapping Marronage is an interactive visualization of the trans-Atlantic networks of intellectual, creative and political exchange created by enslaved people in the 18th and 19th century. It traces the geographic reach, crossings and intersections of letters, testimonies and financial exchanges by enslaved people of African-descent."

"... a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities."
--See also: Campaign Zero above

"...gathering Mauritanian immigrants living in the US. It is fighting for human rights, civil rights and better opportunities for Mauritanians, both in the US and in Mauritania."

"For more than 40 years, the Maynard Institute has fought to push back against the systemic lack of diversity in the news industry through training, collaborations and convenings."
--See especially: Resources

"[Founded in 2001]...an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at local, national, and international levels."

"MoCADA was founded in 1999 in a building owned by the historical Bridge Street AWME Church in heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community...MoCADA opened its new facility in the James E. Davis 80 Arts Building on May 19, 2006."

"This website contains information about people who lived in slavery on Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantations. It provides access to a database of information on over six hundred individuals--details of life span, family structure, occupation, and transactions like purchases and sales."

"L'actualité africaine à Montréal...Notre mission est de diffuser des articles concernant la littérature, le sport, le cinéma, la musique et des faits de société reliés à l’Afrique."

"The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people. In doing so, the movement makes it possible for us, and therefore everyone, to live healthy and fruitful lives."
--See especially: Policy Platforms: political statements and education materials for community events and leadership training, includes: Economic Justice ; Invest-Divest ; Reparations

"...dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century."

"The African American Cultural Institute grew out of the research and development process that began in 2002. The new museum was renamed Museum of the African Diaspora to reflect a broadened scope and mission...MoAD opened its doors in 2005, debuting a gorgeous modern museum designed to showcase art and culture through the lens of the African Diaspora."
--See especially: Current --and-- Past Exhibitions.

"Founded in 1991 by Reverend Al Sharpton, NAN works within the spirit and tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote a modern civil rights agenda that includes the fight for one standard of justice, decency and equal opportunities for all people regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, criminal record, economic status, gender, gender expression, or sexuality."

"Established in April, 2015, the NAARC is a group of distinguished professionals from across the country with outstanding accomplishments in the fields of law, medicine, journalism, academia, history, civil rights and social justice advocacy. They are united in a common commitment to fight for reparatory justice, compensation and restoration of African American communities that were plundered by the historical crimes of slavery, segregation and colonialism and that continue to be victimized by the legacies of slavery and American apartheid."
--See especially: Reparations Plan

An extensive collection of guides and descriptions on the holdings at NARA on African-American history, including access to selected online documents, the searchable online catalog, and related links.
-- See also, Prologue magazine. (Online): Special Issue "African American History & Federal Records" (Summer 1997) Vol. 29, No. 2. -- College Park, MD: NARA, 1997.

"This resource --a how-to guide-- is designed to support the discovery of documents relating to black British history within The National Archives’ collections. Due to the nature of our records, the term ‘black British history’ in this context refers to records relating to British citizens of African and African-Caribbean descent."

"[Founded December 12, 1975] The National Association of Black Journalists, 3000 members strong with 74 affiliated professional chapters and 51 student chapters, is the largest media organization for people of color in the world." General information, news releases, media resources, information on scholarships, internships, & job opportunities, headline reviews, etc.
--"NABJ remembers Founder and former president Les Payne," March 20, 2018

"[Founded in 1987] The mission of NBAF is to engage, cultivate and educate diverse audiences about the arts and culture of the African Diaspora and provide opportunities for artistic and creative expression. The National Black Arts Festival celebrates the arts in three ways: Education; Year-round programs; A summer festival in July."

"NBJC is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. NBJC’s mission is to end racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ/SGL bias and stigma."
--See especially: Reports and Publications

The website offers general information, glimpses of current and permanent exhibitions in the museum, and a calendar of events.

"Established in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum is located at the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968."

General information about the activities and membership of this organization founded in 1969 ; plus links.

"...established in 1975 by African American scholars who recognized the need to formalize the study of the African World experience, as well as expand and strengthen academic units and community programs devoted to this endeavor."
--47th Annual NCBS Conference "Reparations, Resilience, and Restorative Justice: Commemorating the Centennial of the Rosewood Massacre of 1923," Gainesville, Florida, March 22-25, 2023

"NEA was founded in 1969 as the Caucus of Black Economists to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession. In addition to continuing its founding mission, the organization is particularly interested in producing and distributing knowledge of economic issues that are of exceptional interest to promoting economic growth among native and immigrant African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color."

"...a non-profit, non-partisan organization primarily composed of current and former black women legislators as well as many appointed officials. Originally established in 1985 as a national organization to increase and promote the presence of black women in government." The site includes policy resolutions and information on education programs and annual conferences.

"Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the Urban League collaborates at the national and local levels with community leaders, policymakers, and corporate partners to elevate the standards of living for African Americans and other historically underserved groups."

--See especially: State of Black America, 2023: Confronting the Threat Within ; Archive of all annual reports ;  ReMARC's Newsletter (weekly) 

"Our Mission (since 1970) is to integrate artists of color and women into the mainstream of American theater by training artists for the profession, and by presenting plays by writers of color and women to integrated, multicultural audiences – plays which evoke the truth through beautiful and artistic re-creations of ourselves." The archive consists of an inventory of plays produced at the New Federal Theater, including the lists of artists and productions, with photographs. The list can be searched by years, play title, playwright, and director.

An exhibition on view through June 1, 2018
"Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., King in New York traces the civil rights leader’s encounters with New York from the 1950s until his assassination in 1968."

"Launched in 2007...CRRJ supports the academic and teaching projects of scholars within and beyond Northeastern University, and the restorative justice efforts in communities to honor this history...The Archive, a project of CRRJ and the Northeastern University Library, holds over 1150 cases and thousands of documents."
--See especially: Burnham Nobles Digital Archive

[Since 2008] "Cognizant of the Black community’s continuous evolution, NAAM focuses on African Americans whose route to the new world was through slavery as well as recent immigrants arriving from places such as Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia."

"Approximately 10,000 black people came to Nova Scotia between 1749 and 1816...It showcases more than 100 documents reflecting the early African Nova Scotian experience. The exhibit focuses on the period between 1749 and 1834, dates which mark the founding of Halifax and the coming into effect of legislation abolishing slavery in the British colonies, respectively."  The site also includes an exhibit of photographs on "Decendants and Setttlements, c1879-1955".
--See also: Government of Canada: "Black History in Canada" above

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."

--See also: "About" the Obama Foundation

"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."

"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"

"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."

"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

Celebrating 28 years!  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

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).

A news and commentary blog on global African affairs since 2005!

"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

"...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

"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

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."

"Neil Kenlock and Armet Francis were two radical figures, who took their cameras onto the streets of North Kensington as part of a wider commitment to documenting the lives of African-Caribbean people across London and beyond. Both Jamaican-born...Kenlock was the official photographer of the British Black Panther movement in the UK during the late 1960s and 1970s, a press photographer for the West Indian World newspaper, and the co-founder of ROOT lifestyle magazine and Choice FM radio station...Armet Francis became a fashion and advertising photographer in London...embarked on two lifelong projects – The Black Triangle: People of the African Diaspora and Children of the Black Triangle – that explore black diasporic communities in Britain, Africa and the Caribbean."

"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."

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.

"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

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

Established in 1997: "Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is the first Academy Qualifying Festival for Short narratives devoted to showcasing films produced, directed and written by women of color."
--See especially: Reel Sisters 2023 Awards Ceremony -and- Reel Sisters Award Winners 2023

Selected highlights from a photographic exhibition, October/November 2004.

"The Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain project has created a searchable database of well over 800 newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped. Many were of African descent, though a small number were from the Indian sub-continent and a few were Indigenous Americans."

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..."

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.

The website featuring podcast conversations and interviews conducted by historian Kidada Williams on "Black liberation, progress, and joy", all with contemporary relevance.

[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."

"...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..."

"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

"...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."

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 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."

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." 

--See also: #Slaveryarchive Book Club on YouTube

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."

"[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.

"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."

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."

[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."

A very brief, popular introduction to the history of Somalia and of Somalis in London, with a few illustrations and photos.

"The site grew out of a 2009 teachers’ workshop held in Columbus, Ohio...offers many resources, including selected video clips from the workshop. These clips are organized into themes: identity, arts, family, education, language, and global cross-currents."

"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

"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.  

--Plus: K-5 Framework, Teaching Hard History --and-- 6-12 Framework, Teaching Hard History

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.

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 website for this premier art museum featuring information about current and past exhibitions of works by contemporary artists of African descent.

"...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

A very brief, popular introduction to the history of Swahili-speaking peoples in East Africa and in London, with a few illustrations and photos.

"DICOTA is an organization whose purpose is to unite and strengthen the Tanzanian American Diaspora and its supporters, in order to enhance the economic, health, and social well being of Tanzanians and Americans."

The site includes information on the Islamic Tijaniyya brotherhood --founded in Morocco in the 18th century-- and local community events in the US. "Our goal is to guide Muslims, and specially Africans, in the Sunna of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and promote an Islam of peace. Within ITFA, African and American Muslims meet for spiritual enrichment...ITFA also periodically organizes seminars and conferences where scholars share their thoughts and install in the community the values of tolerance and dialogue."

"...created in 2013 by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, a not-for-profit, professional, artistic organization dedicated to promoting Cinema, Art and Culture in Canada and abroad."
--See also: Festival International Black de Montréal above

"This website displays research into the lives of 431 enslaved people in seven multi-generational families at Mesopotamia plantation in Jamaica and Mount Airy plantation in Virginia...Since the 1970s, Richard S. Dunn has been tracking the 1,103 slaves who lived at Mesopotamia between 1762 and 1833, and the 973 slaves who lived at Mount Airy between 1808 and 1865. And he has reconstructed the lineages of slave families from both plantations through four or five generations."

"Umbra Search makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool; digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections; and support of students, educators, artists, and the public through residencies, workshops, and events locally and around the country."

"...a dynamic coalition of African community-based organizations that promotes social and economic justice, civic participation, and empowerment of African immigrants and refugees in Illinois."

An educational web site --in plain and flash versions-- on the history of African and Asian presence in London, Bristol, and Liverpool; with sample texts, images, interactive maps, and bibliographic references and links.

"...the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 62/122 of 17 December 2007, declared 25 March the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to be observed annually. The resolution also called for the establishment of an outreach programme to mobilize educational institutions, civil society and other organizations."

"A Volunteer Transcription Effort," containing pension files, biographies, and regimental histories. "The primary mission of this project is to provide edited transcripts of pension documents related to the United States Colored Troops at no cost to the general public...As of 2021, this project is led by a professional historian, employed by a state government and charged with the preparation and digital publication of a long-standing editorial project, with a master’s degree in history from a state university with the specialization of interpreting the Civil War for a modern, public audience."
--See especially: "Why Pensions?" -and- US, Civil War "Widows' Pensions", 1861-1910

A web page describing "...one of the largest collections of African American cookbooks in the country. The collection consists of almost five hundred volumes covering the period from 1827, when the first book with recipes by an African American was published, through 2011."
--See: List of books

This online exhibition highlights materials from the collections of the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. "...Lift Every Voice is a year-long, nationwide celebration of the 250-year tradition of African American poetry, its richness and diversity, and its central place in American poetry. The initiative is directed by Library of America in partnership with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

"The CRDL promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement [the struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s]...features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries...provides educator resources and contextual materials, including Freedom on Film, relating instructive stories and discussion questions from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia, delivering engaging online articles and multimedia."

Founded...in 1984 to address the concerns of Black communities in Boston and Massachusetts through research, technical assistance, and public service. The Institute takes its name from early twentieth century African American activist William Monroe Trotter, whose political advocacy, radical journalism, and Black internationalism placed Black Diasporic communities across the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa in critical conversation. 
--See especially: Publications, including the journal Trotter Review

[The project]...maps the suppression of the African slave trade by tracing nearly 31,000 records of correspondence exchanged between the British Foreign Office and British commissioners, ministers, naval officers, and representatives of foreign governments around the world over the course of the nineteenth century."

A searchable interface for "various independent online collections", which includes "Race & Slavery Petitions Project" ; "NC Runaway Slave Advertisements" ; "Slave Deeds of North Carolina" ; "Slavery Era Insurance Registries" ; and, Voyages--The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.
--See About page

"The Memorial was built to honor the lives and legacies of the enslaved laborers at UVA. A virtual tour highlights these stories."

A downloadable -- with free registration -- archive of raw data and documentation on selected aspects of the history of the transatlantic slave trade. See especially: What DISC and the Slave Movement Site Can and Cannot Do for You

This searchable electronic book is part of a larger project called: Africana Digitization Project. The collection includes 7 works on West African history, 1526-1680 -- especially for areas now known as Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

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."

An impressive list of links (without annotations).

"In 1859, one of the largest slave sales in US history took place at the Ten Broeck Race Course, now an obscured landscape, on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia."

--See also: "The 1859 Savannah Slave Auction: A Genealogy of People and Place" (August 2014) by Dr. Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson. --via YouTube.com

News and historical summaries on slavery and the slave trade, in addition to information about the museum. "In 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery."

"The Woman King premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022. Since then, it has received a warm welcome by audiences around the world...Our syllabus is meant to satisfy that curiosity—for those who are interested in the history beyond the fiction." The site includes recommended books and other readings on the kingdom of Dahomey, the Agodjie, Vodun, African women in the Atlantic slave trade. and related topics.

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"

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."