African, African American, & Diaspora Studies

"AJOL provides free online hosting for over 500 peer-reviewed journals from 31 African countries, using open source software. AJOL's partner journals cover the full range of academic disciplines with particularly strong sections on health, agriculture and African studies."

"Seeks to increase the number of black-authored texts in the study of digital humanities. By generating a metadata schema that accounts for race and race-related issues, we will correct the digital divide in black-authored texts." From the University of Kansas.

"Black in Data represents a community of academics, professionals, and students working in various areas of data. We gather to support, learn from, and share opportunities with one another, and ultimately increase representation of Black people in data fields."

"The Cite Black Author database is meant to amplify Black scholarly work, and to do that effectively we encourage everyone to search through the citations listed for topics that best align with your research."

A guide for "incorporating an anti-racist lens at all stages of the research life cycle" by librarians at the University of Minnesota. Topics include primary research, secondary research, scholarly publishing, search algorithms, and cataloging systems.

"An inclusive, trans-disciplinary, experimental space based at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Department of Global Development Studies."

"We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet."

"The oral histories comprising this collection were compiled as part of James Madison University’s 1978 summer workshop, "Oral Tradition and Storytelling in the Black Community of Harrisonburg.'" From the Special Collections at JMU Libraries.

"This collection contains all of the digitized Augusta County Circuit Court records pertaining to African American history. This collection is an important first step in documenting the black experience in Augusta County, VA during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Physical copies of most of these documents are on view in the deed room of Augusta County Circuit Court in Staunton, VA."

"This living digital archive originated in the course “Black Studies and Black Spaces: Black Critical Frameworks and Communities at JMU and Beyond, 1968 to the Present” and continues to grow, with research and support from AAAD minors, graduate students, JMU faculty, and alumni."

A guide to Black comic book collections and resources in Special Collections at JMU Libraries.

"The online companion to the permanent exhibition that celebrates the life of pioneering African-American educator, Lucy F. Simms, and the school named in her honor."

"Now in its third decade, the Furious Flower Poetry Center (FFPC) has been a driving force in showcasing, promoting, and analyzing African American poetry nationally and internationally."

"An interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture."

"A digital project that aims to catalog and map all the historical markers commemorating victims of lynching in the United States."

"This website focuses on telling the stories of all the known lynching victims who were killed in Virginia between 1866 and 1932, most of them African American men."