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African Diaspora

• Africa Reparations Movement (UK) (via ARC Net Ltd., UK)
  
  
• African-American / African Diaspora Biography on the Internet
  
  
• African American Monuments, Museums and Memorials (Rob 'Eddis' Gilmore, via GeoCities)
  This website offers an extensive list of historic sites, museums, and memorials, with contact information and links to home pages. The information can be viewed in alphabetical order or by state. Note: some web links are outdated.
  
  
• The African-American Mosaic Exhibition: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. (Online) -- Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, June 1997.
  
  
• African Burial Ground (New York)
  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."
  -- See especially: History & Culture--Reports
  
  
• African Diaspora Archaeology Network (Chris Fennell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  "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.
  
  
• African Diaspora Biography on the Internet. (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• ADFF 2007: The 15th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival, New York: November 23-December 9, 2007 and Archives (ArtMattan Productions, New York)
  -- See also: Best of ADFF, February 2008, Brooklyn, New York
  
  
• African Events.Com (New York)
  An electronic magazine in English featuring reports and photos of "African" cultural events in the New York City area...predominantly Nigerian in focus.
  
  
• AFFORD: African Foundation for Development (London, UK)
  A web portal for the African diaspora in the United Kingdom, with news and information on opportunities in education and investment.
  
  
• African Philosophy Resources (Prof. Bruce B. Janz. University of Central Florida, Orlando)
  • An extensive list of links to online texts, websites, and related resources on a variety of topics.
  • African philosophy teaching resources
  • Afrocentrism/Africentrism
  • African-American & African Diaspora Philosophy Resources
  
  
• African Services Committee (New York)
  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."
  
  
• African Studies in the West Indies (2001) by Alan Cobley, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. (H-AFRICA "Africa Forum", H-Net--Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  
  
• "Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery" Web Site (PBS Online; WGBH Interactive, WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts)
  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".
  
  
• Africans in bondage...Ed. by Paul E. Lovejoy (1986) (See below under University of Wisconsin Libraries)
  
  
• Afrique Francophone (Lehman College, City University of New York, Department of Languages & Literatures; CUNY Graduate Program in French)
  An extensive list of links to Francophone sites on Africa and the African Diaspora.
  
  
• The Afro American Newspapers, The Afro-American Newspapers Home Page. (Baltimore, Maryland)
  A compilation of links to news and short historical and culture summaries in African American studies, a "kids zone", and related information. This website is part of the legacy of The Afro-American Newspaper founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr., in Baltimore.
  
  
• Afrocentricity and the Black Athena Debate (Professor Wim van Binsbergen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; via GeoCities)
  A collection of articles in English and French on the issues surrounding Martin Bernal's multi-volume work-in-progress, "Black Athena".
  
  
• AfroCubaWeb (Arlington, Massachusetts)
  An extensive list (in English) of links to information about cultural events, authors, and other news from various Afro-Cuban communities.
  
  
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain, Durham, North Carolina)
  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."
  
  
• Afromix: Afro-Caribbean Music (Afromix.Org, Fabrice Gaillard, Paris)
  In English, French, or Spanish. Current and some historical background on the popular music of each country in Africa, the Caribbean, & the Indian Ocean, with information on recordings of major artists; plus "Black Paris" music industry information and links to other sites.
  
  
• Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Manu Herbstein (Accra, Ghana)
  This is a website with excerpts from the historical novel by Mr. Herbstein and offering a diverse array of links and excerpts from the Web relating to discussions about the Atlantic slave trade, West Africa, slavery, and African-American history.
  
  
• Amistad America, Inc. (New Haven, Connecticut)
  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.
  
  
• Columbia University's Amistad Digital Resource (See below)
  
  
• Association de descendants d'esclaves noirs et de leurs amis (ADEN) (Paris)
  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 >>.
  -- Veuillez voir aussi: Liens
  
  
• Association of Black Women Historians (via Howard University, Washington, DC)
  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."
  
  
• Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (New York)
  "[Founded in 2000] ASWAD is a not-for-profit, tax deductible organization of international scholars seeking to further our understanding of the African Diaspora, that is, the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world. Through the examination of history, dance, anthropology, literature, women's studies, education, geology, political science, sociology, language, art, music, film, theater, biology, photography, etc., we seek to share the most recent research both within and across disciplinary and other conventional boundaries."
  -- ASWAD Conferences, 2001 to present
  
  
• Association pour la Connaissance l'Etude et la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (1998) (Université Paris VIII, France; via Internet Archive WayBackMachine)
  • Une bibliographie sur la question de l'esclavage.
  • Voir aussi: Comité pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (2006) ci dessous
  
  
• Association des Sénégalais d'Amérique (New York)
  'Créé en 1988, l'ASA a pour mission de contribuer au développement économique, politique et socio-culturelle de la communauté sénégalaise résidant aux Etats-Unis d'Historique.'
  
  
• Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH) (Silver Spring, Maryland)
  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.
  
  
• Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas
  This site offers general information about ANPA, its annual conferences, and related events and activities.
  
  
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: An Image Collection (Jerome S. Handler & Michael L. Tuite, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, Virginia)
  An archive of images on the trade---with an emphasis on the West African coast, the middle passage, and the Americas, including maps, book illustrations and engravings, and photographs of historic sites.
  
  
• Migration Simulation: The Atlantic Slave Trade & Oriental Slave Trade from Africa (Patrick Manning, Professor of History and African-American Studies, Northeastern University et al.; via World History Center, Department of History, Northeastern University, Boston)
  "This web site permits a step forward, to organized speculation, through demographic simulation. This simulation, in summarizing available information on slave trade -- and combining it with what is known of normal human patterns of birth, death, and migration -- has made it possible to offer a coherent picture of African and diaspora population in the era of slave trade. In exploring the simulation, you are invited to vary the demographic conditions and see their implications."
  
  
• Black American feminisms: a multidisciplinary bibliography. By Sherri L. Barnes (2005) (University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries)
  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."
  
  
• Black Arts Research Center (Nyack, New York)
  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."
  
  
• Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Home Page
  "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."
  
  
• Black Commentator, The. (Online) -- Washington, DC: The Commentator, 2002--
  A forum for African American political commentary and satire on American and world affairs. The current issue is available, plus back issues since April 2002.
  
  
• Black History Month (Well Placed Consultancy, London, UK)
  Events, news, biographical sketches, photographs, and related links from the UK about the global African diaspora -- past and present.
  
  
• Black issues book review. (Online) -- New York: Target Market News, 1998-
  Highlights from the current issue and subscription information are available on this website.
  
  
• BlackPressUSA.Com (Baltimore, Maryland)
  A project of The Black Press Institute--a partnership between the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation (NNPAF) and Howard University: This website offers current and recent US news (since 2004)featuring articles by African American journalists and from "Black community publications". The site also includes: a directory of local black press websites; and selections from the "Black Press Archives".
  
  
• Black Radical Congress (2005) (St. Louis, Missouri)
  A progressive US-based, lobbying organization with global African political and cultural concerns.
  
  
• The Black World Today (New York)
  Founded in 1996, this web site offers news analyses and commentaries from "a collective of journalists, writers, artists, communicators and entrepreneurs."
  
  
• California Newsreel -- African American Perspectives (San Francisco, California)
  This commercial site features background information on the films available for purchase or rental.
  
  
• CanadaNoir - Afro-Canadian Links Page (GeoCities.Com, South Beach)
  A useful guide to websites of organizations and news.
  
  
• JAG! Cape Verdeans on Nantucket, 2002-2003: An Exhibition by the Nantucket Historical Association (Nantucket, Massachusetts)
  • See also: Cape Verdean links
  
  
• Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World -- "Conference on Ending the International Slave Trade:
  A Bicentenary Inquiry" March 26-29, 2008, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
  See also: Teaching Resources
  
  
• Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: A Reference Guide (Richard Greene ; via Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  This "classical music" website offers a discography (PDF format), composer listing, recent promotional news, and related links.
  
  
• Columbia University: Amistad Digital Resource (Columbia Center for Digital Research and Documentation, New York)
  "[This web site] is designed not as a classroom text, but as a unique multimedia resource for secondary school teachers to enhance their knowledge and ability in teaching African-American history. When completed, it will include hundreds of rare and iconic photographs, audio recordings, news clips, and excerpts of oral history interviews with a descriptive narrative text explaining significant themes and key events in African-American history, from slavery to the twenty-first century."
  
  
• Columbia University: Institute for Research in African American Studies (New York)
  General information about the program in African American studies at Columbia; plus an events calendar and publications.
  
  
• Cinquantenaire du 1er Congrès international des écrivains et artistes noirs, Paris, France, 19-22 septembre 2006 (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris)
  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..." Voir aussi le site officiel de l'Institut W.E.B. DuBois
  
  
• CRAN: Conseil représentatif des associations noires (Paris, France)
  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.
  
  
• Guide to the Harold Cruse Papers 1943-1994 at New York University (The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York)
  -- See also: Primary Sources--Africana Studies, NYU Libraries
  
  
• Cultures Sud. (Online). Anciennement "Notre librarie" -- Paris, France: Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française et le Ministère des Affaires étrangères, 1999- [Originally founded in 1969.]
  On peut lire ou télécharger les derniers numéros depuis septembre 1999 (en format PDF). "..c'est une revue de référence, d'actualité et de critique sur les littératures d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et de l'océan Indien."
  
  
• Darfur People's Association of New York (Brooklyn, New York)
  
  
• Diastode--Diaspora togolaise pour la démocratie et le développement (Hull, Québec, Canada)
  Ce site offre les actualités et un forum pour la communauté togolaise. Depuis 1995, 'la Diastode informaient la communauté togolaise de l'évolution de la situation politique au Togo et apportaient son soutien moral et politique aux forces démocratiques.'
  
  
• Conference on "DuBois and the Scientific Study of Race", March 4, 2005, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Sponsored by the Political Science Department, Yale University.
  The web site features general information on the conference, its participants, and abstracts of the papers to be presented.
  
  
• Duke University Libraries: John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (Durham, North Carolina)
  
  
• "Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada," Black History Month Conference, 4-5 February 2005, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • The web site features conference information and links to resources, including:
  • "The global African community reference notes: a selected bibliography of African Canadian history." By David W. States and Crystal D. Mulder. (1998) via "The Global African Presence." Compiled by Runoko Rashidi. (Coastal Web Online, California)
  • "Black history: a bibliography, April 2000: Canadian kits, videos, and films." (Updated, April 2003) Kindergarten to Senior 4. (University of Manitoba Library, Manitoba, Canada)
  
  
• Le Comité pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (Paris, France)
  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. >>
  
  
• El Espíritu de mi Mamá = Spirit of my Mother (Santa Clara, California)
  A promotional website for the film by Alí Allié about a Garifuna woman's journey home to Honduras.
  
  
• Ethiopian-Americans (See: Tadias magazine. (Online) below)
  
  
• Festival of African and Caribbean Film, Barbados (via University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Bridgetown, Barbados)
  • "The Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film is the latest manifestation of a growing phenomenon: a recognition of the importance of visual media to the region, and an enthusiastic engagement with the processes of production, distribution, spectatorship and criticism."
  • October 2003 films and filmmakers
  
  
• First Run/Icarus Films -- African American Studies (New York)
  This commercial site offers background information on the films available for purchase or rental.
  
  
• France. Assemblée Nationale: Reconnaissance de l'esclavage comme crime contre l'humanité (Loi no. 2001-434 du 21 mai 2001) (Paris)
  
  
• Ghana Cyber Group, Inc. (New York)
  • The website features news about events and activities; plus Ghana links. '[Founded in 1999] GCG has two principal divisions: GCG Investments and Ghana Cyber Group Foundation, a non-profit, incorporated in the United States, which is currently working on: shipping books to Ghanaian universities; The Ghana Digital Project--expanding computer and Internet access at Ghanaian universities; and, Health Project--fundraising for Ghanaian hospitals and environmental protection.'
  • Newsletter, including information about events
  
  
• Global Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora (Institute of Diasporic Studies and the Multimedia Learning Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
  Over 50 scholarly entries, photographic images, and maps on the African diaspora -- produced by faculty and graduate students. In order to view the contents of the site, the browser must have Macromedia Flash Player. "This interactive website is the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year partnership between faculty, graduate students and technical staff at Northwestern University to create a virtual archive housing scholarly entries that demonstrate the linkages between transnational black politics, social movements and world historical events of the twentieth century."
  
  
• Grioo.Com (Paris, France)
  Ce site est un portail d'informations sur le monde noir depuis 2002. << GRIOO pour le griot africain dépositaire des traditions et de l'histoire en phase avec la modernité ... Les associés du portail d'informations GRIOO sont mus par la volonté de participer à la promotion de la culture noire et africaine grâce leur savoir-faire acquis et exercé dans diverses associations et entreprises >>.
  
  
• H-Afro-Am Discussion Network (H-Net--Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  This site features an archive of messages from a discussion list in the field of African-American studies; plus links to Africa-related lists.
  
  
• Haiti on the Internet
  • Bob Corbett's "Haiti Page" (Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri)
    An Irish-American scholar-traveller has compiled information about Haitian history, culture, book reviews, film, art, music, etc.
    
    
  • Haiti Archives World History Archives (Dr. Haines Brown, Hartford Web Publishing, Hartford, Connecticut)
    An extensive collection of links to historical articles on Haiti.
    
    
  • Haitian Book Centre (Uniondale, New York)
    
    
  • Haitianité.Com (USA)
    A portal site in English for the Haitian community in the USA, with news and "history and politics" sections.
    
    
  • Windows on Haiti (Guy Antoine, New Jersey, USA)
    A portal site in English for general information about Haiti and its history, commentaries, and links to current news in the Haitian press...including: Le Nouvelliste.Com.
  
  
• Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora (Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada)
  • Areas of Research
    Includes basic information about: The Nigerian Hinterland Project (NHP) -- and -- Ports of the "Nigerian" Hinterland

    General information about the project and its individual and institutional participants. The NHP affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project focuses on the development of the African diaspora stemming from the "Nigerian" hinterland during the era of the slave trade from approximately 1650 to 1900.
  • African diaspora newsletter. (Online) -- Toronto, Cananda : York University, Department of History, 2000-- (PDF files)
  • Conferences and seminars organized by the NHP and related projects around the world
  
  
• HBCU Gateway: Historically Black Colleges & Universities in the U.S.A. (Howard University, Washington, DC)
  An extensive list of links to the home pages of HBCUs.
  
  
• The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: African Immigrant Experience (Philadelphia)
  This section of the HSP site is based on the 2001 project of the former Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies on African immigrant communities of Philadelphia (includes seven detailed oral history accounts of immigrants; plus a directory of organizations and businesses).
  
  
• History now. (Online) -- "Looking at Slavery: Going to the Sources." (Issue 2, December 2004). -- New York: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York Historical Society, 2004-
  
  
• Ijaw Resource Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  This website for the Ijaw diaspora and others from the Niger Delta region residing outside of Nigeria offers selected news from various sources in Nigeria and in the western news media; plus web links.
  
  
• "L'immigration sénégalaise en France, de 1914 à 1993: étude de l'implantation et du rôle des confreries musulmanes sénégalaises." par Dr. Fatou Gassama. Thèse de doctorat, Université Charles de Gaule--Lille 3, [2004]. (Université Lille 3: La recherche --Thèses en ligne, Lille, France)
  
  
• Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Canada -- Conferences
  • Workshop on Slave Legacy, Identity, and Development, 29-30 March 2008
  • International Conference on Debt & Slavery: The History of a Process of Enslavement, 7-9 May 2008
  • 1st Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, April 28, 2008
  
  
• ISD--Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  
  
• Conférence des Intellectuels d'Afrique et de la Diaspora, Dakar, Sénégal, octobre 2004 -- Rapport final Format PDF (African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• Interrogating the African Diaspora: African Diaspora Identities -- Graduate Summer Seminar 2005 for M.A. and Ph.D. Students, Florida International University, Miami, Florida African-New World Studies Program.
  The deadline for applications is February 15, 2005.
  
  
• Irìnkèrindò: a journal of African migration. (Online) -- New York: The journal, 2002--
  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.
  
  
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Prof. David Pilrim, Department of Sociology, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan)
  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.'
  
  
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington, DC)
  • "[Since 1970] The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies informs and illuminates the nation's major public policy debates through research, analysis, and information dissemination in order to: improve the socioeconomic status of black Americans and other minorities..."
  • DataBank: a comprehensive warehouse of data on racial populations
  • Publications information and selected online reports
  
  
• Latin American Network Information Center: African Diaspora (University of Texas, Austin)
  A compilation of Internet resources on African peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  
  
• Latin American Video Archives -- African Diaspora in the Americas Study & Resources Guide (New York)
  
  
• The Liberian Mandingo Association of New York (LIMANY)
  An online community news magazine for this ethnically-based, Liberian-American organization (founded in 1990) and for news about Liberia and the Liberian diaspora in general, with links to related web sites.
  
  
• "Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora", University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, November 10-14, 2003 (via Harriet Tubman Resource Centre, York University, Toronto, Canada)
  This web page is a general call for papers. "The aim is introduce a wider audience to the ways in which trans-Atlantic constructions of the historical experience of the African diaspora find expression in the literary mode. It encourages the exploration of the African diaspora through a variety of genres, both oral and written. These include narrative, poetry, myth, legend, autobiography, drama, as well as other texts."
  
  
• Live 8 Concerts -- The Long Walk to Justice
  
  
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora Web Page
  (Dr. Scott W. Williams, Department of Mathematics, State University of New York, Buffalo)
  
  
• Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education -- History Project (Oakland, California)
  "The Maynard Institute History Project documents and preserves the stories of those courageous African American journalists who broke into general circulation media during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. The project launched in 1999 with The Caldwell Journals, a personal account of the black journalists' movement written by legendary reporter and columnist Earl Caldwell."
  See also: Maynard Institute Home Page.
  
  
• Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University (Washington, DC)
  • "[The Center] is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience."
  • HUArchivesNet. -- Washington, DC: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, 2000-
    The quarterly electronic journal of the center.
  
  

• Muridiyya -or- Mouride Brotherhood on the Internet

  • Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbacke, 1854-1927
    
    
    • Khidmatul Khadim -- Official Home Page of Islam Al Muridiyya, Touba (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
    • The Life of Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba (via  Official Homepage of Muridiyya Khidmatul Khadim School)
    • Senegal Online: Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (France)
    
    
  • MICA--Murid Islamic Community in America (New York)
    General information--biographical and cultural, announcements and events--including the annual visit of Serigne Mame Mor Mbacke; plus related links.
    
    
  • Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam in West Africa and the Mouride Diaspora (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles)
  
  
• Musée Dapper -- Exposition: Brésil, l'héritage africain, du 22 septembre 2005 au 26 mars 2006 (Paris, France)
  
  
• National Archives and Records Administration on African-American Research (College Park, Maryland)
  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.
  
  
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Washington, DC)
  
  
• The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) (Adelphi, Maryland, USA)
  "[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.
  
  
• National Black Arts Festival (Atlanta, Georgia)
  "[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."
  
  
• The National Black Law Students Association (Washington, DC)
  
  
• The National Center for Afro-American Artists (Boston, Massachusetts)
  The website offers general information, glimpses of current and permanent exhibitions in the museum, and a calendar of events.
  
  
• National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) (Washington, DC)
  General information about the activities and membership of this organization founded in 1969 ; plus links.
  
  
• The National Conference of Black Lawyers (Lansing, Michigan)
  
  
• The National Society of Black Engineers (Alexandria, Virginia)
  • "NSBE had its genesis at a national conference planned and hosted by the Society of Black Engineers at Purdue University in April 1975. Black Engineering students from the United States and Canada attended the event. From this meeting of concerned students and educators, NSBE was born."
  • NSBE publications
  
  
• The National Urban League (New York)
  
  
• The Nigerian Hinterland Project (See Harriet Tubman Resource Centre above)
  
  
• The New York Historical Society: "Slavery in New York" Exhibition, October 7, 2005 -- March 5, 2006 (New York)
  "Slavery in New York, the first of two exhibitions, spans the period from the 1600s to 1827, when slavery was legally abolished in New York State. With the display of treasures from The New-York Historical Society, as well as other great repositories, it focuses on the rediscovery of the collective and personal experiences of Africans and African-Americans in New York City."
  
  
• Organization of Women Writers of Africa 2004 (New York)
  • 'The OWWA was formed in 1991 and is a nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of establishing links between professional women writers from Africa and its Diaspora.'
  • "Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization" October 12-16, 2004, New York University, New York
  
  
• Organization of Africans in the Americas (Washington, DC; via GeoCities.Com)
  "The OAA is established for charitable and educational purposes to improve the life chances and conditions of communities of African descent with special regard for those populations who speak Spanish and Portuguese. Through involvement and promotion of cooperative efforts among diverse Black communities, OAA functions as a resource and referral center of data, service, support and empowerment of Africans in the Americas."
  
  
• The Orishas in Music (Discography) (Ian Scott Horst, via AOL)
  This site consists of two lists of recordings and artists. "The Orishas are divine beings originally worshipped by the Yoruba people of West Africa. Their worship was carried to the New World in the holds of slave ships, and became well established in many countries of the western hemisphere. Music is a major element in the worship of the Orishas. ... Orishas have also insinuated themselves into the melting pot of popular culture, and songs celebrating their existence have come out of many musical genres, from jazz to salsa to disco."
  
  
• PAFF: Pan African Film & Arts Festivals (Los Angeles, California)
  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."
  
  
• PBS Online on the African Diaspora (Public Broadcasting Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia)
  • The African-American World
    An extensive list of links to web sites that accompany past, current, and upcoming programs on the history and culture of African-Americans on the PBS network of television stations, with related resources and links.
  • I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African American Arts (PBS Online and Blackside Inc., Boston)
    This is a web site to accompany a public television series celebrating 20th-century African-American writers, dancers, painters, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists. General information about the television series, video orders, and related resources are offered here.
  • The New Americans: Join the Adventure (PBS Online and KCET, Los Angeles, California)
    Supplementary materials to accompany the television programs. Dominican baseball players seeking to join the Los Angeles Dodgers and Ken Saro-Wiwa's sister - Barine Wiwa-Lawani - returns to Nigeria in 1998.
  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS Online and Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York)
    This the website about the 2002 public television series on the African American struggle against white supremacy and racism in the United States, 1865 to 1954; including resources for teachers and related links.
  
  
• "The Portuguese Atlantic: Africa, Cape Verde and Brazil" Conferência em Mindelo, São Vicente, Cabo Verde, 6-10 July 2005 (via Centro de Estudos Africanos, Lisbon, Portugal)
  A "call for papers" with the deadline for abstracts set at March 15, 2005.
  
  
• QBR - The Black Book Review Online (New York)
  The web site includes highlights -- book reviews and interviews -- from the print magazine about African American authors and their work (published 6 times per year) ; plus subscription information and related links.
  
  
• Revue des diasporas noires, La. (Online) -- Paris: Institut des Diasporas Noires Francophones, 2006-
  "Notre objectif est de stimuler la recherche sur les populations caribéennes et africaines francophones, principalement en France et en Amérique. Il s'agit de mettre à la portée de tous des textes -- en histoire, sociologie, littérature, etc. -- qui ont en commun de rompre avec une conception étroite de la société et de son histoire."
  
  
• Royal Geographical Society: Journeys -- Caribbean Stories Unlocking the Archives. In association with the Institute of British Geographers. (London, UK)
  Selected highlights from a photographic exhibition, October/November 2004.
  
  
• The Say Brother Collection -- WGBH Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
  The website of the archive of a local public television program (1968-1982), featuring a searchable program directory and an extensive digital gallery of sample film excerpts. "Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers..."
  
  
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (The New York Public Library)
  • The site provides information about this extensive research collection on global Africa, access to the online public catalog of the New York Public Library, and a variety of exhibitions and public programs.
  • Center Home Page
  
  
  
  • In-Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    A multi-media presentation on the history of African diaspora migrations -- includes teaching resources. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas."
    
    
  • Digital Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th century
  • Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans from the 19th century
  • Digital Schomburg: Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969): A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture
  • Exhibition: Harlem 1900-1940: an African American community (via University of Michigan)
  • Exhibition: The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
  • Schomburg Center Video Oral History Gallery: Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
  
  
• Senegalese-Americans (See Association des Sénégalais d'Amérique above)
  
  
• Slave-Studies.net: Transatlantic Slave Trade Part of the WWW-VL European History. (Claus K. Meyer, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
  A selection of links to web sites with data sets or other resources on the transatlantic slave trade.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution: Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Washington, DC)
  • Exhibitions
  • African American Resources
  
  
• Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History -- Guide to the Web (Raquel Cogell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  
  
• The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)
  The website for this premier art museum featuring information about current and past exhibitions of works by contemporary artists of African descent.
  
  
• The Islamic Tijaniya Foundation of America, Inc. (Washington, DC)
  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."
  
  
• Tadias magazine. (Online) -- New York: Tadias, Inc., 2003-
  An Ethiopian-American online magazine which includes recent political and cultural news, as well as contributions from scholars and journalists on a variety of contemporary and historical topics, including Ethiopian-American and Ethiopian artists, musicians, religious, and political figures. Excerpts are also available from the archives.
  
  
• TransAfrica Forum (Washington, DC)
  • A foreign policy research and lobby organization, with a focus on Africa and the African diaspora. See especially:
  • Globalization monitor. (Online) -- Washington, DC: Transafrica Forum, 2002-
    "...focuses on how the African world is affected by the phenomenon of globalization."
    
    
  • All Publications on Cuba, Haiti, US-Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa Debt Burden (1998-), Patrice Lumumba, Black Reparations, etc. (in downloadable PDF).
  
  
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization on the African Slave Trade Route (Paris, France)
  • 2004: Slavery Abolition Year -- International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
    
    
  • La Route de l'Esclave = Slave Route Project, 1994-2005
    Sur ce site, on peut trouver les informations à propos de ce projet, des publications, des activités du Comité scientifique, quelques cartes sur les routes internationales de la traite négrière, et aussi, une carte, un exemplaire d'un bulletin (PDF), et des liens choisis.
  • UNESCO Slave Trade Archives Project (Memory of the World)
    This site offers general information about the project and links to related web sites. "The Slave Trade Archives Project, initiated by UNESCO, is concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade."
  
  
• University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center: The African American Texts (Charlottesville, Virginia)
  "Texts by African-American writers and other items relevant to the subject (including rare manuscript texts) from The Modern English Collection at the University of Virginia Library." Access to digitalized excerpts from works by major African American intellectuals of the last two centuries. Warning: not all texts are available to readers without a U. of VA userid.
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Data and Program Library Service: On-Line Data Archive--Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Madison, Wisconsin)
  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 DPLS and the Slave Movement Site Can and Cannot Do for You
  
  
• University of Wisconsin Libraries: Africans in bondage: studies in slavery and the slave trade. Ed. by Paul E. Lovejoy. -- [Madison, Wisconsin]: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1986.
  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.
  
  
• Voice of the Shuttle: African American Resources (Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, California)
  An impressive list of links (without annotations).
  
  
• Yale University -- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven, Connecticut)
  • "[The] Center is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. It seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world by promoting interaction and exchange between scholars ... by assisting in the translation of scholarly information into public knowledge through publications, educational outreach and other programs and events."
  • Bibiographies
  • Conferences
  • Online documents
  
  
• The Zeleza Post (Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza et al., University of Illinois, Chicago)
  A politics and culture blog site with a sc