African American Studies

The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.

The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) is the leading organization of Black Studies professionals in the world. For more than 30 years our members have been at the forefront of driving the development of Black/Africana Studies as a respected academic discipline. Our commitment to putting theory into practice, however, has also led us to the front lines of community issues throughout the African Diaspora. Our guiding philosophy is that education should engender both academic excellence and social responsibility.

Out of Tulane University, the Center is "is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights."

"The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web..." The collection consists of "a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources - such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities--to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process."

Howard University's digital collections.

The New York Public Library's digital collection that "makes available for research purposes rare, unique, and primary materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world, with a concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean."

From the National Gallery of Art.

Artists and art related to Black Atlantic, "the fusion of black cultures with other cultures from around the Atlantic."

Selections from an exhibit that ran at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2019-2020.

Online exhibit from Emory Libraries and Information Technology and Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library

The official website of Zora Neale Hurston.

Independent scholar and documentarian Candace Taylor's oral history interviews with African American entrepreneurs whose businesses were listed in Green Book and are still going today. From the Library of Congress.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce® is dedicated to economically empowering and sustaining African American communities through entrepreneurship and capitalistic activity within the United States and via interaction with the Black Diaspora.

To lead in the creation of economic and intellectual wealth for African Americans.

Directory links to sites of more than 300 museums, archives, libraries, galleries, historical societies, and cultural centers.

"A living archive of global Black creativity, the collection includes artist monographs, exhibition catalogs, children’s books, artist memoirs, artist biographies, art history texts, and other art related ephemera." Runs Feb. 5 - April 18, 2021.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History provides learning opportunities, exhibitions, programs and events based on collections and research that explore the diverse history and culture of African Americans and their African origins.

Images, rotating exhibits, timeline, and oral histories are among the offerings from the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

Open to the public in 2016, this museum of part of the Smithsonian Institution.

From the Pew Research Center.

Founded in 1905, The Chicago Defender celebrates its 114th Anniversary in 2019 and the evolution being recognized nationally as the 2nd most widely read and best African-American Newspaper by Nielson and Essence Survey 2014.

Founded in 1936, the weekly newspaper focuses on news, information and events of interest to the African American community.

From the New York Times: "An audio series ... observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery."

Webby Award Honoree podcast from The Nocturnists. "Over 200 Black healthcare workers from across the country signed up to participate in this project, which aired for ten weeks from June through September 2020. The series highlighted stories of racism in the workplace, as well as stories of Black joy, Black love, and Black excellence. The final episode featured a conversation between Ashley and Kimberly, reflecting on the production of the series and highlighting their favorite stories and moments."

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. From the ballot box to the classroom, the thousands of dedicated workers, organizers, leaders and members who make up the NAACP continue to fight for social justice for all Americans.

The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the National Urban League spearheads the efforts of its local affiliates through the development of programs, public policy research and advocacy. Today, the National Urban League has 95 affiliates serving 300 communities, in 35 states and the District of Columbia, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide.

The Association of Black Psychologists was founded in San Francisco in 1968 by a number of Black Psychologists from across the country. They united to actively address the serious problems facing Black Psychologists and the larger Black community. 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.

NABA, Inc. bridging the opportunity gap for people of color in the Accounting, Finance, and Business professions

To increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community.

The church was born in protest against slavery – against dehumanization of African people, brought to the American continent as labor. The Mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s liberating gospel through word and deed.

Founded in 1886, the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (Convention) is the nation's oldest and largest African American religious convention with an estimated membership of 7.5 million. The National President, Reverend Dr. Julius R. Scruggs has led the organization since 2009.

Interview with the first woman and first African American to lead the Library of Congress.

The NCBW continues its legacy of “building partnerships through creative alliances”, with the current national administration working to Link-Leverage-Lead in its work to ensure a relevant “new millennium” agenda reflecting the contemporary issues and solutions to the barriers encountered by women of color in achieving gender and racial equity.

Our mission is to lead, develop and advocate for women of African descent as they support their families and communities. We fulfill our mission through research, advocacy and national and community-based health, education and economic empowerment services and programs in the United States and Africa. Through section and affiliate volunteers in 34 states, NCNW addresses local needs while impacting communities nationwide.