African American Literature and Culture: Websites

PBS Documentary with henry Louis Gates. Jr.

A 13,000 page reference center dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.

Contains graphs and tables and is available as a PDF.

The Black Health Network is a forum and online community for individuals to meet and interact with each other to discuss relevant health issues that affect African Americans and others.

A team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.

Includes links to resources from the National Archives. Resources are organized by topic. Links to outside sources and bibliographies by other institutions, such as the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, are also provided.

Combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

A resource guide for the study of African-American history and culture from the Library of Congress.

Provided by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the guide is a valuable resource for scholars and other researchers interested in African, African American, and African Diaspora history and culture.

The John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library at Duke University collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in the Americas.

A music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University. Our goal is to promote black music by providing our readers with monthly updates on interesting new releases and quality reissues in all genres.

A trans-disciplinary on-line peer reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African experience around the world.

Provides black celebrity news, entertainment, business and politics.

A blog made up of writers, filmmakers, film critics and film enthusiasts, led by the site's founding creator, Tambay A Obenson, all interested in discussing primarily film and filmmakers of the African Diaspora.