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Search Gale In Context: Middle School for age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, and primary sources.
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Kid-friendly news articles about a variety of topics.
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"A reference center...dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world."
Database in an easily searchable, wiki-like format.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by an Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 40,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members.

This ProQuest database features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. This website contains over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:
Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

"A collection of more than 4,000 online primary sources including documents, photographs, and other artifacts that illustrate African American history."

"BlackPressUSA is brought to you by National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade organization advocating for America’s African-American-owned newspapers and media companies."

Virginia Public Media celebrates Black history, culture, and excellence through powerful documentaries, podcasts, specials and more. Explore stories of triumph, adversity, and achievement on VPM PBS, VPM News, VPM Music and social media @myVPM.

The Root is an online magazine featuring news and culture stories from an African American perspective. It features the annual "Root 100," which is a list of "the 100 most important black influencers between the ages of 25 and 45."

The Photographs and Prints Division contains both documentary and fine art photographs, which document the history and culture of people of African descent worldwide as well as the work of photographers of African descent. The collection of over 300,000 images ranges from mid-eighteenth century graphics to contemporary documentary and art photography; all of the major photographic processes are represented.

BAIA's mission is to document, preserve, and promote the contributions of the African American arts community.

Explore a selection of works by Black artists included in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.

Souls Grown Deep advocates the inclusion of Black artists from the South in the canon of American art history and fosters economic empowerment, racial and social justice, and educational advancement in the communities that gave rise to these artists. Souls Grown Deep derives its name from a 1921 poem by Langston Hughes (1902-67) titled The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the last line of which is "My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

An essay on the history of Black theater in America, including a list of notable shows.

An overview of Black cinema in America with links, citations, and suggested further reading.

The Fashion History Timeline is an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe. The Timeline website offers well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments and films for those interested in fashion and dress history.
Search for specific designers or topics with keywords like "African American" or "Black designers."

From Ann Lowe to Telfar Clemens, L'OFFICIEL pays tribute to the Black designers who have changed fashion history and paved the way for other creatives of color through their innovative designs.

A good list of Black entrepreneurs from The Root, covering Anthony Johnson in the 1620s to Charles H. James in the 1880s. A lot of dead links, but a good starting point for your research.

A photo essay from History.com on the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as "Black Wall Street."

"Forbes spoke to a number of founders, investors, activists, celebrities and experts on the black diaspora. What emerged from these conversation was a rich, complex portrait of black entrepreneurship, one that highlights the black community’s tremendous creativity, as well as a resilience that was born, in part, out of hardship and necessity."

Our mission is to empower people to create a just, humane, equitable and peaceful world by applying Dr. King’s nonviolent philosophy and methodology (Nonviolence365).

History.com timeline of key figures and events in the American Civil Rights movement.

A timeline of key works, artists, events, venues of African-American dance on stage in the U.S. from the Philadelphia Tribune.

Dance Informa reflects on black dancers who have significantly impacted the art form.

Founded in 1992 by iconic music and film producer Quincy Jones as a print publication, VIBE is a leading entertainment and lifestyle brand delivering content across multiple media platforms to a diverse audience around the world. With over 25 years of celebrating Black culture, VIBE continues to embrace the soulful roots that chronicle the artists, celebrities, sounds, fashion​, and events—from hip-hop and R&B to the modern-day converging music landscape.

Redhotjazz.com was a crown jewel of the early internet. Starting in the mid ’90s it made the offline discographies and biographies of early jazz available to the online public. It also hosted thousands of audio files donated by people who were digitizing their 78 RPM record collections, making many obscure recordings available for the first time.
The Syncopated Times is duplicating the content of the Red Hot Jazz Archive from a snapshot saved in Archive.org’s Wayback Machine.

The Avoice website is designed to capture and preserve the rich history of political and legislative contributions of blacks for future generations. This virtual online library is a central source of information about historical and contemporary African American policy issues important to researchers, academics, educators and students.

The NAACP works to disrupt inequality, dismantle racism, and accelerate change in key areas including: criminal justice; health care; education; climate; and the economy.

The Black Inventor Online Museum is a look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation.
Achievements by Black inventors can be seen as far back as ancient Africa but much of society has no idea that many of the products or devices that make their everyday lives more enjoyable are the result of the hard work and ingenuity of Blacks.

Selected internet resources for African Americans in science and technology, compiled by the Science Reference Section of the Science, Technology, and Business Division, Library of Congress.

Established in 2010 by Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Foundation is inspired by the life of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells—code named HeLa—were taken without her knowledge in 1951. They became one of the most important tools in medicine—with damaging consequences for her family, many of whom often struggled to get access to the very health care advances their mother’s cells helped make possible. Unfortunately, there are numerous examples of historic research studies conducted on individuals—particularly within minority communities—without their knowledge or consent. These include the Tuskegee Syphilis Studies, the Human Radiation Experiments, and others. The Henrietta Lacks Foundation seeks to provide assistance to individuals and their families who have been directly impacted by such research.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture invites middle and high school students to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) via a video conversation series.

The Undefeated is the premier platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports and culture. We enlighten and entertain with innovative storytelling, original reporting and provocative commentary.

Since the founding of the United States, African Americans have played a pivotal role in the shaping of American history and heritage. This series of exhibits showcases the black experience in the United States through the lens of American postage stamps.