Africana Studies Department

Related Sites on Campus

African American Room - Description of the African American Room, located in room 91 of Manoogian Hall.

DAAHP - Wayne State's Detroit African American History Project. Now in progress, this ambitious project presents broad studies of various events of Detroit's African American history.

Purdy Library - Wayne State University Library

Related Sites in Detroit

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History - Founded in 1965, the museum "exists to serve Metropolitan Detroit and national communities by providing exceptional exhibitions and programs based on outstanding collections and research the explore the diversity of African American history and culture."

Detroit Institute of Arts - African Art collection Explores the African Art collection at Detroit's Art Museum.

The Michigan Chronicle - The online version of The Chronicle, Michigan's most respected African American newspaper.

Related Sites on the Internet

Research Centers

African American Labor History Links - An extensive repository of online links to African American labor history and the civil rights movement.

Africana.com - The gateway to the black world.

The African-American Mosaic - A Library of congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture.

Afrigeneas - Based at Mississippi State, Afrigeneas is a genealogical research site for African ancestry with over 30 links specific to African American genealogy, including the Freedman's Bureau Records, the National Archives & Records Administration Archival Information Locator, and emancipation papers.

Amistad Research Center - Located on the Tulane University campus, "while the focus is national, the holdings are international in scope. Researchers who use these resources find information about social, economic, and political hisotry that leads to new interpretations of history."

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture - The online site of the southeast Washington museum dedicated to the 'preservation and interpretation of people of African descent and heritage living in the Americas.'

Black Film Center/Archive - Supported by the Indiana University Department of Afro-American Studies, this site contains digitized early film clips and historical information on black filmmakers.

Digital Librarian - Many links to African American issues and topics on the web.

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History - Online version of research materials compiled by the classic publisher of research materials.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site - This website "provides access to information about the life of Frederick Douglass, as well as the material and document holdings of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site."

The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Center for Nonviolent Social Change - The official Martin Luther King Jr. historical site.

The Museum of Afro-American History, Boston - Virtual tours, resource links and more.

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture - The site of the Schomberg Center, "a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."

Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture - The national Parks Service site dedicated to African American heritage. Includes tours of the historic South and research the Underground Railroad.

W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center - Online presence of the W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center, includes papers and links to other sites.

Organizations and Associations

NAACP - The official page of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, includes current updates, calendar of events and text of speeches by president Kweisi Mfume.

The National Urban League - The social service and civil rights organization founded in 1910.

The National Bar Association - The African American counterpart to the American Bar Association.

National Association of Black Journalists - The site of the "largest media organization for people of color in the world."

Afrocentric Sites

African National Congress - Full-text access of numerous African National Congress publications.

E-journals and News

Africa News Online: Gateway to a Continent - An Africa-based site which includes numerous links for up-to-the-minute news and events in Africa.

The Black World Today - Created in response to the Black church burnings of the early 1990s in the United States, this site exists as an action "to chronicle the daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of Black communities and countries..."

Hype - A 'webzine and print publication that monitors the Black image in the media." Published by the Center for Media & the Black Experience.

Other interesting sites

Afribeat - "the mission statement of Afribeat: to portray authentically the beauty of the music as it exists on this continent - in its roars of anger, screeches of compassion, in its opulent and fragmented heritage and its lively vibrant edge."

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora - An exhibition of "the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within Mathematical Sciences.

TransAfrica Forum - provides substantive commentary and scholarship on policy issues related to Africa and the Caribbean and (2) educates Americans, in general, and African Americans, in particular, on such topics as human rights, democracy, and global economic policy.