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redball.gif (414 bytes) Africa Online
web:   www.africaonline.com/

Africa Online is the premier provider of internet communications services throughout Africa, bringing Internet users a level of technical expertise and breadth of service unequaled by any other on the continent.  This site offers news and information on Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

redball.gif (414 bytes) African American Interest
web:   http://home.earthlink.net/~anthony/african.html

This site contains an extensive list of sites for Africans and African Americans.

redball.gif (414 bytes) African American Resources
web:    www.rain.org/~kmw//aa.html

This site is a collection of mainly cultural links.

redball.gif (414 bytes) African American Sites
web:   http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/afam.html

This site is a listing of historical and academic links.

redball.gif (414 bytes) African American Web Ring
web:   http://www.halcon.com/halcon/1ring.html

The Afro American Web Ring contains a vast assortment (over 1700) of African American related web sites.

redball.gif (414 bytes) AFRO-Americ@
web:   www.afroam.org/

This site is maintained by the Afro-American Newspaper Company of Baltimore, Inc.  It contains information on African American history, news, culture, resources, and a kids zone.

redball.gif (414 bytes) Afronet
web:   www.afronet.com/

This site contains information on entertainment, careers, communities, business, technology, and even offers free e-mail accounts.

redball.gif (414 bytes) Black Facts Online
web:    www.blackfacts.com/

An on-line searchable database of Black History Facts that you can use to:  

1.  Look up Black History Facts for every day of the year.
2.  Perform full text searches for Black History Facts.
3.  Find out what happened in Black History today.
4.  Find out what famous Black people were born on your birthday.
5.  Help you research papers and articles.
6.  Help educate yourself and your children on Black History.


redball.gif (414 bytes) CAAS - Center for Afro-American and African Studies - University of Michigan
web:   www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/index.html

The Center for Afro-American and African Studies (CAAS) functions as an academic department and as three area studies programs. It has its own undergraduate program, courses, and faculty. It is also a home for interdisciplinary area studies research. It helps promote scholarship and teaching in African Studies, African American Studies, and Afro-Caribbean Studies throughout the University of Michigan.

redball.gif (414 bytes) K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet ©
web:    www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html

The aim of this guide is to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom, for research and studies.

redball.gif (414 bytes) MelaNet®:  The UnCut Black Experience
web:   www.melanet.com/

MELANET.com is the platform for intellectual, economic and spiritual expression of peoples throughout the African Diaspora.

redball.gif (414 bytes) National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution
web:   www.artcom.com/museums/nv/mr/20560-03.htm

This is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection, exhibition and study of African art. Permanent collection of 100 masterworks; permanent exhibition of royal Benin art, utilitarian objects, and Central African pottery.  Included are traditional arts of Africa south of the Sahara and of northern Africa, and the contemporary arts of the entire continent.  A leading research and reference center, the museum houses a photographic archives and research library.

redball.gif (414 bytes) NetNoir - The Black Network
web:   http://home.netnoir.com/

redball.gif (414 bytes) New Intelligence Inc.
web:   http://www.newintel.com/

New Intelligence Inc. is a Texas corporation, founded in 1996, dedicated to the design and development of innovative computer software and related technology for education, with an exclusive focus on proven approaches that make a real and measurable difference in the classroom.

New Intelligence continues to develop and introduce educational software and print materials based on established concepts that combine innovative ideas with proven, effective approaches that produce results in learning.


redball.gif (414 bytes) Orientation - Africa
web:   http://af.orientation.com/

Orientation.com is dedicated to developing and connecting Internet communities in the cyberworld beyond North America and Western Europe, and aims to help people explore this world thoroughly and easily.

redball.gif (414 bytes) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
web:   http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

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

The Center provides access to and professional reference assistance in the use of its collections to the scholarly community and the general public through five research divisions, each managing materials in specific formats but with broad subject focus. The Center's collections include art objects, audio and video tapes, books, manuscripts, motion picture films, newspapers, periodicals, photographs, prints, recorded music discs and sheet music.


redball.gif (414 bytes) The Two Nations of Black America - Frontline (PBS)
web:   www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/

Reviewing the thirty years that have passed since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows that while many blacks reaped the reward of the civil rights movement and affirmative action and gained middle class status, just as many were left behind in an expanding underclass of poverty.

 

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